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A Spoke in the Wheel A novel about the Buddha Amita Kanekar Upali, a monk and an embittered survivor of the war that made Emperor Ashoka overlord of the whole of India, hates the Emperor with all his heart. Yet it is to him that Ashoka, the self-proclaimed Beloved of the Gods, entrusts the task of recording the Buddha’s life and teachings for posterity. For the Emperor is set on a new conquest— that of Dhamma... And so begins a search for the Buddha and a struggle over the past. What really was the Buddha’s message? Ascetic renunciation? Universal salvation? Passive disengagement? Tolerance—even of intolerance? If his message was a critique of violence, how did it come to be championed by the most successfully violent autocrats of ancient India? These are questions that begin to surface among the Buddha’s followers, fearfully and then angrily, to be viciously debated even as Dhamma rises to glorious imperial patronage, a patronage that will sustain it for over a millennium and reach it to half the world’s populace. Set in 256 BCE, almost three hundred years after the death of the Buddha and four since the terrible battle of Kalinga, this is a story about the Buddha and his disciples, among them an ordinary monk, one of the questioners, and an extraordinary king, who seemed to have all the answers. It is also about how the movement called Dhamma was born, how it spread, changed lives and got changed itself. A Spoke in the Wheel is an ambitious and erudite work of historical fiction—intricate in its craftsmanship, vital in its ideas and epic in its sweep. ‘Strips away layer by layer [the] fanciful stories surrounding the Buddha and reveals him as an ordinary man who had an extraordinary approach to his problems...’ Deccan Herald ‘Amita Kanekar’s novel about Emperor Ashoka and the Buddhist monk Upali... successfully captures the stress and strains of monastic life, and brings alive the centuries following the death of the Buddha... An interesting mix of erudition and historical imagination’—Outlook ‘An important contribution to Indian historic fiction’—The Tribune 6 Amita Kanekar lives in Goa where she has been adopted by two cats. She teaches architectural history when not writing. July 2013 ISBN 9788189059569 All rights available
Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But... Gogu Shyamala Translated from Telugu Gogu Shyamala’s stories dissolve borders as they work their magic on orthodox forms of realism, psychic allegory and political fable. Whether she is describing the setting sun or the way people are gathered at a village council like ‘thickly strewn grain on the threshing floor’, the varied rhythms of a dalit drum or a young woman astride her favorite buffalo, Shyamala walks us through a world that is at once particular and small, and simultaneously universal. Set in the madiga quarter of a Telangana village, the stories spotlight different settings, events and experiences, and offer new propositions on how to see, think and be touched by life in that world. There is a laugh lurking around every other corner as the narrative picks an adroit step past the grandiose authority of earlier versions of such places and their people—romantic, gandhian, administrative—and the idiom in which they spoke. These stories overturn the usual agendas of exit—from the village, from madiga culture, from these little communities—to hold this life up as one of promise for everyone. With her intensely beautiful and sharply political writing, Shyamala makes a clean break with the tales of oppression and misery decreed the true subject of dalit writing. ‘...warm, sensuous images of a world far removed from our garbage-strewn, traffic-choked and neon-lit cities’ Outlook ‘Gogu Shyamala’s luminous, moving and funny prose is almost deceptive in its lightness of touch, and deftness of language’ —Tehelka ‘These stories do more than make the margin the centre; they make the margin a place of vivid enchantments, rendered with idiomatic vitality’—Open Gogu Shyamala is a senior fellow at the Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. She has documented and edited dalit women’s writings in Telugu. ‘Shyamala’s greatest achievement is the note of humour and lightness that sounds through this collection’—Wall Street Journal–Mint 2012 ISBN 9788189059514 263 pages Hardback 5 x 7.8” Rs 350 All rights available
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