About the Book: I Have Become the Tide
Where is that land where water flows free? A powerful, beautifully imagined
novel from Gita Hariharan asks when the tide will turn to make this dream real.
Hundreds of years ago, chikka, son of a cattle Skinner, finds a home in
anandagrama, among people who believe everyone is equal; people whose prayer is
inseparable from song and work, The river and the land, friendship and love.
Chikka becomes chikkiah the washerwoman who sings by his beloved river. But the
anandagrama movement against caste is torn apart, and its men and women
slaughtered or forced to flee. In the