Ghachar Ghochar

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1. Tomb of Sand

   Tomb of Sand

   by Geetanjali Shree

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   International Booker-winning Hindi novel of an 80-year-old widow who travels to Pakistan to face her Partition past. Translated by Daisy Rockwell.

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2. Hangwoman

   Hangwoman

   by K.R. Meera

   AdultsIndian author

   Chetna, from a family of hangmen, becomes India's first woman executioner. Translated by J. Devika.

   Heads-up: Violence

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3. Yuganta: The End of an Epoch

   Yuganta: The End of an Epoch

   by Irawati Karve

   AdultsIndian author

   A landmark Sahitya Akademi-winning study by an anthropologist who reads the Mahabharata's characters as real, flawed people — Kunti, Draupadi, Karna, Krishna — stripped of divinity.

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4. Bhima: Lone Warrior

   Bhima: Lone Warrior

   by M.T. Vasudevan Nair

   AdultsIndian author

   A Malayalam classic (Randamoozham) that retells the Mahabharata through Bhima, the second-born brother always overlooked for the crown.

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5. Parva

   Parva

   by S.L. Bhyrappa

   AdultsIndian author

   An epic Kannada novel that strips the Mahabharata of miracles and retells it as a realistic human story of war, kinship and ageing.

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6. The Liberation of Sita

   The Liberation of Sita

   by Volga

   AdultsIndian author

   A Sahitya Akademi-winning Telugu novel in which Sita meets Surpanakha, Ahalya, Renuka and Urmila and finds her own path to freedom.

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