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Calcutta in the seventies - a place where, amidst political unrest, love blossomed in the quiet afternoons under the spell of the songs of Rabindranath Tagore mingling with the melodies of Western classical music. It was the city where Rukmini spent her childhood and her adolescence and found love. Career takes Rukmini to the cloud-laden mountains of Mussoorie, where men and women like her have come to learn about India, that is Bharat. As she travels from ...
This collection is unique in that it combines journalistic essays with fiction, effectively overcoming the usual disjunctions between narrative genres. Through her passionate writing Agnihotri compels the reader to reflect on the many levels of the reality of socio-economic development in India, and what this means for the poor and marginalized. This volume contains translations of selected prose writings by Anita Agnihotri, originally written in Bengali between ...