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Number of pages:
218
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Book Size:
7.75"x5.1"
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Book Weight (Hardbound):
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Book Weight (Paperback):
250 gm
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Published in:
10/01/2005
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Paperbound
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ISBN_PB:
8129107201
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A Dying Banyan explores 'what it means to be a Muslim' in contemporary India. It is a story of the identity crisis of young Suhail.
Alleys of a Muslim neighbourhood; exploitation by wily politicians; well-off, estranged cousins, all school dropouts; memories of Partition, of a branch of the family settled in Pakistan; war with Pakistan and emergence of Bangladesh; Suhail's unfulfilled love for a Hindu girl; his sister's affair with a Hindu boy - these set the tone for nagging questions of one's place in Indian society. Suhail's sleepless nights are haunted by images of a dead banyan tree, a symbol outwardly of unrealised potentials, of frustrated hopes, but at a deeper, fundamental level, of the composite culture of India. It is this banyan, then, this cultural emblem, that Suhail finds in decay.
This book is translated by Kuldip Singh which was originally written in hindi Sukha Bargad. A retired medical teacher, Kuldip Singh has translated mostly the works of Nirmal Verma. Widely published in Indian magazines and literary periodicals, Kuldip Singh's poems have also appeared in Poetry Review.
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