The Masked Face and two other stories: Novel (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Ratna Books 7/22/2025, 2025
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The Masked Face and two other stories: Novel.
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- Title
- The Masked Face and two other stories: Novel (Paperback or Softback)
- Author
- Vaasanthi
- Publisher
- Ratna Books 7/22/2025
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback or Softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9361771531
- ISBN 13
- 9789361771538
- Item weight
- 0.51 pounds
'What is right? What is wrong?' asks Rohini in The Masked Face. 'We are creatures of circumstances.' Malini, her elder sister, rages at her insensitivity to the feelings of those she hurts by her action. It is the sense of values that differ from person to person whether it is among the urban, educated women in Delhi who imagine that they are truly modern or among the God-fearing, rural women, in Shadow Play, who have assembled at a temple village, Gunaseelam to cure their mentally affected daughters, believing the Lord would cure them, and reluctant to ask the question 'what is right?' It is a question that troubles Malathi, daughter of a gentle Gandhian, in The Womb, who knows nothing but to love - never considers the wealth of her husband as something of value and unable to wear a mask. It is a world that Malini, Paatti at the choultry of Gunaseelam, and Malathi - who is shocked at the one unforgivable question her husband asks - are unable to comprehend. All the characters, young and old in the three stories try to navigate their lives amidst the backdrop of generational trauma, relationships, sense of values and betrayals and tragedies, the masks everyone wears in a changing society that is still governed by patriarchy. It is a realization that comes at last, 'We are creators of circumstances.'
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About the Author
RADHIKA MEGANATHAN is a translator, editor and award-winning author who has published with several global and local markets such as Hachette, The News Minute, and Arts Illustrated. She is the author of 12+ picture books and the 2004 Highlights USA Fellowship recipient from India; her debut novel The Gurukul Chronicles won at the Pune International Literature Festival (2016) and was launched at the Indian Consulate in New York (2018).Radhika studied creative writing at Birkbeck University (UK) and has taught communications at Loyola College (Chennai). Currently she consults as a script reader for Guru Group (Hyderabad), and as Instructor at Writing Club, IIT Madras.
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