Check in every Thursday for a new set of five! This week's selection includes Shala by Milind Bokil and Ranagan by Vishram Bedekar.
Phoenixchya Rakhetun Uthla Mor by Jayant Pawar
This collection of short stories went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shala by Milind Bokil
Translated as Shala by Vikrant Pande
Set in a small Maharashtrian town during the Emergency of 1975, Shala is a heartwarming, nuanced novel about the adolescent struggles that are as tortuous in real time as they are amusing in retrospect.
Bahinabainchi Gani by Bahinabai Chaudhari
A poetry collection from an illiterate cotton farmer who became a noted Marathi poet posthumously.
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Translated as Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust by Y. P. Kulkarni
A story of greed and desire, Yayati is a story plucked out from the chapters of Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Purana. The novel won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith Award, and Khandekar became the first Marathi writer to receive the latter.
Ranagan by Vishram Bedekar
Translated as The Battleground by Yasodhara Deshpande-Maitra
A tragic love story between Chandrakhar Vidwans, a Maharashtrian returning from England to India, and Harta, a refugee escaping Hitler’s Germany, Ranangan (meaning ‘battlefield’) questions identity in a world on the brink of World War II. Primarily set on a ship, a chance encounter between a European despised for her inferior race and an Indian insulted by white waiters leads to them finding solace and love in each other.
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