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Baan by Mahasweta Devi (Bangla)

What does it take to keep challenging society from your grave? It takes to be Mahasweta Devi. This work of historical fiction transports us to a time when nothing, not even the emergence of a great reformer, could change the lives of India's millions. Little has changed today, and true to form, Mahasweta gives us a story of and for all time.

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