Rudali | 
pickAn unsentimental, realistic story about the struggle for survival faced by the poor people from lower castes in rural India. It spotlights the career of professional mourners - Rudaali - which allows these women to regain power over their oppressors, by making a day‘s meal from their (sometimes hypocritical) grief.
This book also includes a play inspired by the story - but which changes the narrative to favour women‘s struggle over caste.
TalesandTexts There is also an insightful and incisive essay comparing the story and the play, which raises many pertinent questions about the metamorphosis of this story at the hands of two different writers. A must read! 4w
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