Explore the rich tapestry of river literature, a genre uniquely Bengali, delving into the lives of those intertwined with waterways. Characters, shaped by poverty and natural perils, come alive through dialects and colloquial speech, portraying the distinct lifestyles of men and women in riverine societies. "Char literature" captures the fragility and turbulence of shoals,
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How a farmers’ march in 2018 entered Anita Agnihotri’s newly translated novel in real time
‘I am walking along with hundreds of other writers in the country.’ An unemployed farm labourer with her sickle | Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
I had already written a sizeable portion of
The Sickle in 2018 when I found myself perturbed at visuals on the TV screen of innumerable farmers marching 180 kilometres barefoot from Nashik to Azad Maidan in Mumbai. I was able to see an underlying connection between the politics of droughts in Marathwada, the uncertain lives of migrant sugarcane labourers who are bereft of rights, the aftermath to the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha, and the march undertaken by tribal peasants.