Mahashwetha
Rating: 4/5 Title: Mahashwetha Author: Sudha Murthy Genre: Fiction Pages: 160 Publisher: Penguin India ISBN-13: 9780143103295 After reading ‘Dollar Bahu’, I browsed for other books by Sudha Murthy and bought ‘Mahashweta’. While ‘Dollar Bahu’ is a light read, this one on the other hand, is more introspective. Anupama is happily married to her doctor husband Anand when she finds out that she suffers from leukoderma. Her husband works abroad and in the meanwhile she is forced to leave Anand’s home and return to her own in the village. When her husband doesn’t reply to her several mails, she is left hopeless, lonely and marred for life. The crisis and evasion she faces from people and how she overcomes them all is the gist of the story. The book was originally written in Kannada but as the case with all Mrs. Murthy’s books, it was later published in English and all major Indian languages. The plight of the Indian woman is just as described in...