Ittehad: A Life Together

Ittehad: A Life Together

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Ittehad: A Life Together
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Ittehad: A Life Together

Ittehad: A Life Together

Authors: Guli Sadarangani, Rita Kothari

Publisher: Zubaan

ISBN: 9788198792709
Rs. 495.00
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Known and celebrated in her time, Guli Sadarangani, the first woman writer of Sindh, later sank into oblivion. Perhaps this was because she dared to write about a Hindu-Muslim romance that culminated in marriage. The novel that told this story, Ittehad, was first published in undivided India, and later appeared under another title, Melaapi Jeevan. Rita Kothari’s elegant and empathetic translation of the love story of Asha and Hamid teases out the nuances of their understated relationship and reveals how pre-Independence and pre-Partition India held so many possibilities of living and loving together. Perhaps that is why, the translator speculates, members of the Sindhi community trying to find their feet in post-Partition India were uncertain of showcasing a writer whose writings represented a world that no longer seemed possible.

Tagged with: fiction / Guli Sadarangani / indian / Rita Kothari / translation

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