In a Violent Land

Author :

Khushwant Singh

Mahasweta Devi

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ALEPH BOOK COMPANY

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Publisher	ALEPH BOOK COMPANY
Publication Year	2019
ISBN-13	9789388292313
ISBN-10	9789388292313
Binding	Hardcover
Number of Pages	152 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7
Weight (grms)	270
Subject	Society & Social Sciences

One of the meanings of the word ‘olio’ is ‘a miscellany’. The books in the Aleph Olio series contain a mélange of the finest writing to be had on a variety of Indian themes—the great cities, aspects of Indian culture and civilization, uniquely Indian phenomena. Filled with insights and haunting evocations of a country of unrivalled complexity, beauty, tragedy and mystery, each Aleph Olio book presents India in ways that it has seldom been seen before. In a Violent Land contains some of the best fiction and non-fiction that has been written on the violence that permeates every layer of Indian society. Rising out of fault lines of religion, caste, gender, language, class and geopolitics, this brutality has scarred the country for centuries now.
The writers who feature in this volume are Khushwant Singh, Mahasweta Devi, Udayan Ghosh, Anna Bhau Sathe, Manoj Mitta, Harvinder Singh Phoolka, Salam Bin Razzaq, Suketu Mehta, Vijaydan Detha, Sonia Faleiro, Barkha Dutt, Shahnaz Bashir and Sanjoy Hazarika

Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh is Indias best known writer and columnist. He has been founder editor of Yojana and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. He is the author of classics such as Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi. His latest novel, The Sunset Club, written when he was 95, was published by Penguin Books in 2010. His nonfiction includes the classic two volume A History of the Sikhs, a number of translations and works on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published by Penguin Books in 2002.

Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) was a noted social activist and Bengali writer. Her first book, The Queen of Jhansi, was published in 1956. She published twenty collections of short stories and close to a hundred novels. She won several literary prizes including the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979 for her novel Aranyer Adhikar.