• ISBN13: 9789385932175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: June 17, 2018
• Pages: 200
• Original Price: 495.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 290 grams

PRAISE FOR:

“Agnihotri draws you in with her well fleshed out characters. Their dreams, idiosyncrasies and disappointments are all too real; as are their failures.” — Aparna Singh, Women’s Web
“[Anita Agnihotri] sensitively and beautifully chronicles the plight of a major chunk of the country’s population.” — Abdullah Khan, The Hindu

DESCRIPTION:

Set in the forests of northern Odisha, Mahuldia Days is the moving story of a young civil servant caught between her commitment to the tribal communities she knows are the original inhabitants of the forest, and the monolithic state, oblivious to the diverse realities of life on the ground. The moonlit Brahmani river snakes through the story with a life of its own while the city of the narrator’s childhood returns to her in dreams. Agnihotri creates a poignant, intense narrative layered with an awareness of the pressures of motherhood and personal love.

Anita is one of Bengal's best-regarded writers. She writes novels, short stories, poetry, essays, commentaries on development and stories for children. Her work has been translated into Indian and international languages including English, Swedish and German. She has received several awards including the west Bengal Bangla academy award, the sahitya parishad samman, the sarat puraskar and the bhuban mohini dasi gold medal from the university of Calcutta. Her short story collection seventeen (Zubaan) won the crossword economist award in 2011. Anita was a member of the Indian administrative service for over three decades and retired as the secretary to the government of India in the ministry of social justice and empowerment.
Kalpana Bardhan is a writer and translator based in san francisco.