Translations illuminate the richness and diversity of literature. This special Penguin gift set brings together dazzling works of fiction that capture the depth of Indian writing. From Sankar's incredible homage to the city of Calcutta to the astonishing dark humor of K.R. Meera, from a transporting love story by Dharamvir Bharati to Susmita Bagchi's transformational journey and Kalki's satirical stories, these books offer an intimate view of Indian life and culture. With writings from Bengali, Malayalam, Hindi, Odia and Tamil, this collection is a must-have for anyone fascinated by the vast range of Indian literatures. The titles included in the set are: Chowringhee, Yellow Is the Colour of Longing, Chander and Sudha, Children of a Better God, and Kalki: Selected Stories.

Translations Gift Set: India through Her Literatures

Literature & Fiction

Bharati, Dharamvir

Krishnamurthy, Kalki

SANKAR

Meera, K R

Bagchi, Susmita

Literary

India Penguin

Andha Yug is one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediately after the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the play is a profound meditation on the politics of violence and aggressive selfhood. The moral burden of the play is that every act of violence inevitably debases society as a whole. Alok Bhalla's translation captures the essential tension between the nightmare of self-enchantment, which the story of the Kauravas represents, and the ever-present possibility of finding a way out of the cycle of revenge into a redemptive ethicality.

Andha Yug

Bhalla, Alok

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

"Andha Yug is one of the great Indian plays of the millennium, and in Alok Bhalla it has found an ideal translator. . . . A model in the fraught field of translation." ―Girish Karnad, playwright, Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith Laureate "Bhalla’s fine translation is austere and rigorous, negotiating both the epic scale of the play and the Spartan simplicity of its poetry." ―Keki N. Daruwalla, poet, Sahitya Akademi Laureate One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The once-beautiful city of Hastinapur is burning, the battlefield beyond the walls is piled with corpses, and the few survivors huddle together in grief and rage, blaming the destruction on their adversaries, divine capriciousness―anyone or anything except their own moral choices. Andha Yug explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a blind, dispirited age. Andha Yug is illustrated with paintings from a rare, single manuscript of the Razmnama (Book of War), dated to 1598–1599. Created during the reign (1556–1605) of the great Mughal emperor Akbar, the Razmnama is written in Persian, yet it is a translation of the Mahabharata, one of the great Indian epics of Hinduism. An essay by Yael Rice reveals the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar. color illus.

Andha Yug: The Age of Darkness (Manoa)

University of Hawaii Press

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