{"product_id":"budhini-hardback","title":"Budhini - Hardback","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn 6 December 1959, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went to Dhanbad district in Jharkhand to inaugurate the Panchet Dam across the Damodar river. A fifteen-year-old girl, Budhini, chosen by the Damodar Valley Corporation welcomed him with a garland and placed a tikka on his forehead. When these ceremonial gestures were interpreted as an act of matrimony, the fifteen-year-old was ostracized by her village and let go from her job as a construction worker, citing violation of Santal traditions. Budhini was outlawed for 'marrying outside her community'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBudhini Mejhan's is the tale of an uprooted life, told here through the contemporary lens of Rupi Murmu, a young journalist distantly related to her and determined to excavate her story. In this reimagined history, Sarah Joseph evokes Budhini with vigour, authority and panache, conjuring up a robust and endearing feminine character and reminding us of the lives and stories that should never be forgotten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by her daughter, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, a fiercely individualistic novelist herself, Sarah Joseph's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBudhini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e powerfully invokes the wider bio-politics of our relentless modernization and the dangers of being indifferent to ecological realities.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39295691522114,"sku":"","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/1721.jpg?v=1618231315","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/budhini-hardback","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}