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Urmila Pawar
Translated from Marathi
by Veena Deo
Zubaan Books, 288 pages, Rs 350
A Dalit, a Buddhist and a feminist: Urmila Pawar’s self-definition as all three informs her stories about women who are brave in the face of caste oppression, strong under family pressures, defiant when at the receiving end of insult, and determined to guard their interests and those of their sisters. Pawar’s protagonists in these short stories may not always be Dalit, and the mood not always one of anger, but caste is never far from the context and informs the subtext of each story.
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