SOLD OUT
River of Flesh

River of Flesh and Other Stories

Original price was: ₹399.00.Current price is: ₹360.00.

Out of stock

Editor: Ruchira Gupya

9789385755583 | PB | pp. 256 | 2016 | Speaking Tiger

River of Flesh and Other Stories brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India’s most celebrated writers.

Ships in 2-4 days
Edited byRuchira Gupta
9789385755583 | Paperback | 256 | 2016 | Speaking Tiger

River of Flesh and Other Stories brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India's most celebrated writers.

Delivery: Ships in 2-4 days

Calculate Shipping Cost

Categories: , , , Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

River of Flesh and Other Stories brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India’s most celebrated writers — Amrita Pritam, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indira Goswami, Ismat Chughtai, J. P. Das, Kamala Das, Kamleshwar, Krishan Chander, Munshi Premchand, Nabendu Ghosh, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto and Siddique Alam, among others.

Jugnu, in Kamleshwar’s ‘River of Flesh’ (‘Maas ka Darya’), stares at a lifetime of servitude as age and disease take hold; Ismat Chughtai creates the unforgettable character of Lajo in ‘The Housewife’, a carefree young woman who must conform to society’s idea of decency, or risk being branded a whore; in ‘Heeng-Kochuri’, by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, a boy growing up near a red-light area discovers the adult world of patrons, connoisseurs and customers, as well as savouries offered to young boys as bribe; and in Manisha Kulshrestha’s ‘Kalindi’, a son looks in through a window and his life falls to pieces around him.

An unprecedented anthology — for its subject, as well as for the range of authors and translators who are part of it — River of Flesh and Other Stories offers a harsh indictment of this practice of human slavery, too often justified — and occasionally glorified — as the ‘world’s oldest profession’.

Editor:

Ruchira Gupta
ISBN:

9789385755583
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

256
Year of Publication:

2016
Publisher:

Speaking Tiger
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Editor

Ruchira Gupta is a writer, feminist campaigner, professor at New York University and founder of the anti-sex-trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide. She won the Clinton Global Citizen award in 2009, the Sera Bangali Award in 2012 and an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism in 1996. She has helped more than twenty thousand girls and women in India exit prostitution systems. She has also edited As If Women Matter, an anthology of Gloria Steinem’s essays, and written manuals on human trafficking for the UN Office for Drugs and Crime.

Shipping

This book will be shipped in 2 days’ time. The time taken for you to receive the book after it is shipped will depend upon the mode you choose, while completing your purchase. The rates applicable for each mode are different.

You will be informed after the order is shipped.

Shipping costs depend on the mode chosen, the weight of the item, and the distance it will travel to reach its destination. Shipping costs will be charged depending on the weight of the entire purchase (if more than one book is purchased). The same shipping mode will apply to all products in such a case.

You may also like…

Join Waitlist We will inform you when the product arrives in stock. Please leave your valid email address below.