But what irks him the most is the poor standard of literary criticism in the country. Another reviewer had the gall to write about my trilogy Ravan and Eddie without actually reading them,” he said. But the book didn’t give him much recognition. Nagarkar’s next book, Ravan and Eddie, was in English and took another 20 years to come. In his latest work Jasoda, Nagarkar writes about the most down-trodden, women and Dalits, and his eponymous protagonist here is a woman from Paar, a village beyond the backyard.

Source: The Telegraph February 04, 2018 22:52 UTC