Bijnis Woman: Stories Of Uttar Pradesh I Heard From My Parents
by Tanuja Chandra /
2017 / English / PDF
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A masaledaar mix of fact and fiction, action and emotion, drama and passion these strange, funny, intriguing tales from small-town Uttar Pradesh have been passed orally from one generation to the next. They are likely to make one exclaim, This couldn t have happened! even as the narrators swear they are nothing but pure fact. The bizarre chronicle of a lazy daughter-in-law, the court clerk who loved eating chaat, two cousins inseparable even in death, a blind teacher who fell in love with a woman with beautiful eyes and other wild tales from Bareilly, Lucknow, Hapur, Badaun, Sapnawat and Pilibhit, places big and small, in that fascinating part of India called Uttar Pradesh.
