Ek Thee Kottewali Tatha Anney Kahaniya [Paperback] Anita Bharti

About the book Dalit-feminist writer Anita Bharti’s short stories – which blur the lines between fiction, fable, memoir and collective memory – explore how casteism implicates the bodies and being of Dalit women. Forged from her own experiences of anti-caste activism in urban and rural India, and building on her own embodied insights of living with casteism, Bharti’s stories tread the vivid terrains of caste, while being critically attuned to its intersections with gender, religion and sexuality. Why the Selection Panel chose it A fabulation of contexts, voices, grammars and bodies, grounded in Anita Barthi’s lived experience, this collection explores, with complexity and sensitivity, the experiences of Dalit women. Nikhil Pandhi’s translation of ‘Live Broadcast’, one of the collection’s stories, works to convey this artistically and politically important work from Hindi to English. Awards and press India Today – ‘Essential reading to understand the complexities of India’s Dalit and feminist movements’. 2,500 copies sold in the original.