Four of Mahasweta Devi's most powerful stories--'Salt', 'Seed', 'The Witch' and 'Little Ones'--all set in Palamau, the tribal intensive region she has travelled extensively. As she says in her introduction, 'My Palamau is a mirror of India.' These harsh, hard-hitting pieces are, in her own words, among the most important of her prolific writing career. Written in the 1980s, they resonate with anger against the ...
