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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books, Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
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245			_aTEASHOP IN KAMALAPURA AND OTHER CLASSIC KANNADA STORIES
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260			_aHaryana _bHarper Perennial _c2025
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500			_aA teashop in Kamalapura overflows with the lives, squabbles and sounds of its neighbourhood. Tansen sorely regrets abandoning his gifted son Bilas Khan in a story set in the Mughal court. A doting father sacrifices his childrens happiness to serve the cruel demands of his upper-caste master. 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 people-the everyday struggles and joys; the ties of friendship and faith; the politics of love and rejection; the intricacies of betrayal and envy; and the conflicts of class and caste-while continuing to be relevant to our present, puncturing the boundaries of time and space. How much has Indian society changed? How much of it has not?
650			_aFiction
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999			_c195721 _d195721