Namita Gokhale

• Mar-2022
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The blind matriarch, Matangi-Ma, lives on the topmost floor of an old house with many stories. From her eyrie, she hovers unseeingly over the lives of her family. Her long-time companion Lali is her emissary to the world. Her three children are by tu...

• Sep-2008
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• Jan-2003
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With this haunting novel about romantic loss and fatalism, Namita Gokhale confirms her reputation as one of India s finest writers, and one with the rare gift of seeing and recording the epic in ordinary lives. This is the story of Parvati, young, be...

• Apr-2001
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Bitiya is a young university lecturer in Delhi whose external beauty has been destroyed in an acid attack. Unable to bear the pain of her scars or the pity of others, she leaves for the hills of the Himalayas and becomes transfixed by the voices that...

• Jan-1999
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Paro is a heroic temptress, alluring and rapacious, the stuff of legend. Wandering through the world of privilege and Scotch whiskey that the rich inhabit, she is observed constantly by the acid Priya, eternal voyeur and diarist, who identifies stron...