About the Book: Magunis Bullock Cart And Other Classic Odia Stories
To earn his living, Maguni desperately hopes for passengers to choose his old
bullock cart over a bus.
A gnarled sahada tree in a familys courtyard bears witness to a series of
deaths.
A young woman sold into prostitution faces the hypocrisies of a patriarchal
world.
An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of
short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Ringing with the music of Indias regional languages, and peppered with wit and
social commentary, these stories are windows to the past and its