: ‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English #IndiaNEWS After his bath and meal, Tularam put on a new vest. Next he wore a pink kurta made

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‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English #IndiaNEWS
After his bath and meal, Tularam put on a new vest. Next he wore a pink kurta made of tussore silk. Along with it, he wore a dhoti with a red border. He had salt-and- pepper hair, cropped short at the back. Behind that, there was an ill-matched knotted tuft of hair. Under his thick, grey moustache, he had a beaming smile. A ring made of tiger stone adorned his finger. Sankra was about twenty miles from his residence, but he would not go there that day. He would go to Rajim. Avadhoot Singh would take him there like he did sometimes. The raja was going to come there that day. One did not know how long it would be before he came; in fact, it also could be evening or night. The ranger of Sankra had been notified yesterday that the raja had summoned Baidyaraj. While going there, Avadhoot kept repeating that Baidyaraj would be honoured with his title of Baidyaraj that day, and it would get registered – otherwise, among so many people, why should he have been sent for? It was not because he was thinking of the title, but about his meeting with the raja that Tularam’s heart...Read more

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