After Kurukshetra – Mahasweta Devi, Translated by Anjum Katyal

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In these three stories, Mahasweta Devi returns to the Mahabharata and the great battle of Kurukshetra — but follows the epic down its unexpected alleys and by-lanes, telling the aftermath of the war through the eyes of marginalised, dispossessed and Dalit women.

Far from a righteous war, Kurukshetra appears here as a cold-blooded struggle for power that costs countless lives. A short, powerful book about the waste and cruelty of war, translated from the Bengali by Anjum Katyal.