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Hurda / Atharva Pandit.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Bloomsbury India, 2023Description: 317 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789356402287 (pbk.)
  • 9789356402218 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 823.92 PAN  021293
Summary: Valentine's Day 2013 Murwani, a village in Maharashtra Three sisters-Anisha, Sanchita and Priyanka-disappear from school that afternoon. No one knows where they went or why, but everyone remembers they were up to no good. Six years later, a journalist from Mumbai returns to the scene of the crime and tries to piece together what exactly happened that fateful day. Hurda is that story told through the voices of the many whose lives intersected with those of the three sisters. Based on a real-life incident, this novel takes a surgical knife to contemporary India and sets up for display its pervasive and deep misogyny. Savagely hilarious and deeply disturbing, a whodunit as well as an examination of what the lives of women are worth, Hurda marks the arrival of a bold new voice from South Asia.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 823.92 PAN 021293 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 18/08/2025 021293

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Valentine's Day 2013
Murwani, a village in Maharashtra

Three sisters-Anisha, Sanchita and Priyanka-disappear from school that afternoon. No one knows where they went or why, but everyone remembers they were up to no good. Six years later, a journalist from Mumbai returns to the scene of the crime and tries to piece together what exactly happened that fateful day.

Hurda is that story told through the voices of the many whose lives intersected with those of the three sisters. Based on a real-life incident, this novel takes a surgical knife to contemporary India and sets up for display its pervasive and deep misogyny. Savagely hilarious and deeply disturbing, a whodunit as well as an examination of what the lives of women are worth, Hurda marks the arrival of a bold new voice from South Asia.

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