![]() Brinda is married to Biswaas who is from another village. The celebrations take place in a grand manner. Yes, you heard me right, the three year old girl is being married off to an eleven year old boy, Biswaas. No you’re wrong if you assume it would be the carnival or temple fest, it’s Brinda’s marriage. ![]() The house in the village is gearing up for a major celebration. Brinda is young, I mean very just that she is 3 years old. ![]() The book starts off with young Brinda and her brothers playing. Will Banaras, standing at the crossroads between the ancient and the modern, help them expiate? Will they find what they once lost-love, longing or perhaps nirvana?Ī sober read that brings up the lives of innocent widows in Banaras is the story in this book. Little did they know that Banaras was waiting with its unspent debt and the dishonest voices would find their way back to them in Brinda and Debi. ![]() ![]() As visitors to the ancient city, they assumed that the unfinished stories of their past were long behind them. She and Debi are just another shade of white in the city’s numerous ‘white shadows’ until Sia and Uday return to Banaras. Deemed ‘munhoos’, she finds her way to Nirmala Ashram in Banaras where she leads a life of child widow under the watchful eye of Vasanti Bua and her friend, Debi. Banaras celebrates death, but what does it do to the living dead? When three-year-old Brinda is widowed after being married for a few hours, her family refuses to take her back in. ![]()
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