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It is not often that in telling the simple story of an Oriya village girl’s journey from innocence to experience a novel manages to unlock the deep-lying sources of the malaise of the contemporary Oriya society. This is what kunti kuntala shakuntala, the first published novel be the acclaimed Oriya writer Binapani Mohanty, does with a certain aplomb. The novel gives an insight into the commodification that is a woman’s historical condition. It augments that ...