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as well as their political patrons and protectors in the police, whom Mahasweta brings to life with her caustic pen in the pages of these stories. As she pillories the respectable representatives of power in our political system who sustain this underworld, she offers us the extraordinary chance to watch a lifelike effigy of the bizarre structure of Indian democracy burning in the backgroundSumanta Banerjee Unlike most of her works, which focus on tribals and the rural dispossessed, the four stories in this collection are located in the urban and suburban underworld and form an unusual segment of Mahasweta Devis oeuvreFisherman (about Jagat who recovers bodies of young boys from the village tank so that the police can pass them off as cases of drowning), Knife (a tongue-in-cheek account of gang warfare in a suburban town of West Bengal, bordering Bangladesh), Body (about a young woman, used by a politician and his cohorts until she makes her own protest against the exploitative Establishment) and Killer (in which Sona alias Akhil, an unemployed middle-class youth, discovers himself after his first test killing). The indepth introductory essay by veteran cultural historian Sumanta Banerjee, who himself, from his crime reporting past, has a first-hand familiarity with the milieu being depicted, puts the stories in context and goes on to discuss the development of the new criminal underworld in Bengal today.

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17 November 2018

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