Baba Bugi

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Baba Bugi is a metafictional novel about the Indian society today. The viscious, corrupt and criminal polities of today holds the individual helpless in its tightening coils as Magi, a lone fisherwoman of a little village in Konarka, stands up to give battle. Pitted against politicians, criminals and a collous people and with an uncomprehending Zyborg of a new generation son-of-God, Baba Bugi, hurtling through space to save mankind, she finds that if anything is around her. In a finale where the ordinary individual is attempted to be cannibalized by the politicians, the criminals the establishment and even by the author, with the new son-of-God, Baba Bugi, standing confused, Magi rejects all available forms and strikes out a path by herself with her friends. " Tomorrow has already begun, " she says. The novel creates a new sub-genre, the cosmic novel, functioning at once within a cultural milieu and going beyond it into international and cosmic expanses, contexting human being and situations differently. the result is surrealistic. Baba Bugi is a comic and satirical novel with a freshness in its comic vision that will make you rethink about the world in a different way.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.K. Tripathy

B.K. Tripathy, a prominent Professor of English and a scholar of fair visibility, is a prominent fiction writer in Oriya, his first novel appearing as far back as 1958. Educated at the Ravenshaw College, the University of Calcutta and the University of Wisconsin ( Medison ), Tripathy has taught, lectured and researched at Himachal Pradesh University, Berhampur University, Utkal University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse etc. He has a large number of academic publications including books on D.H. Lawrence and American fiction. Tripathy is currently engaged in collecting and documenting tribal folktales in a project he calls " From the Margin to the the centre : Folklore and Mythology of the Tribal people of Orissa". While two more novels of Tripathy are getting ready for publication, Oxford University press is bringing out a bilingual dictionary he has completed.

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Title
Baba Bugi
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8171881556
Length
236p.
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