About the Book: Sakshi: The Witness
Saakshi uses the Puranas and Vedanta as well as Gandhian concepts to discuss the
meaning of truth and its distortions through greed, sexuality and desire.
Overcome by guilt at having committed perjury in court, in a murder trial,
Parameshwarayya, a village elder, commits suicide. Yama, the god of death and
righteousness, affords him the privilege of presenting his case himself.
Thereafter, he commands Parameshwarayya to return to earth in spiritual form to
witness, but not to intervene, in subsequent events. Parameshwarayya observes
his daughter Savitri, son Ramakrishna, son-in-law Satyappa, the woman Lakkoo and
the sensitive Dr Hasheem as they are confronted by