Kalindi (Brahmankanya) by Shridhar V. Ketkar is a masterpiece about Kalindi Dagge, an educated and financially independent women who, suffering a heartbreak, rebuilds her identity.
Kalindi (Brahmankanya) by Shridhar V. Ketkar is a masterpiece about Kalindi Dagge, an educated and financially independent women who, suffering a heartbreak, rebuilds her identity.
It is the early 1900s in Mumbai. Educated and financially independent, Kalindi Dagge dreams of living in a casteless and equitable society as a single mother–a life far removed from the one she had in the stifling world she left behind. A world where she was the daughter of a brahmin lawyer, Appasaheb Dagge, and the casteless Shanta; and the granddaughter of another brahmin and his schoolteacher mistress who rejected the idea of marriage. A world in which she was an outcast; the daughter of a man who rejected his caste but not his caste pride. A world where she had reclaimed her grandmother’s legacy and chosen, in defiance of family and society, to live as the mistress of Shivsharanappa, a Lingayat tobacco merchant, who later abandoned her and left her on the verge of suicide. As she rebuilds her identity now in the big city, she wonders what it would be like to start a new life based on love and respect with Ramrao, a trade union leader who shares her ideologies and dreams.
Shridhar Vyankatesh Ketkar’s masterpiece, originally published as Brahmankanya in 1930, has been hailed as brave and ahead of its times. This magnificent translation by celebrated author and translator Shanta Gokhale brings the classic alive for the contemporary reader, and we see how relevant it remains almost a century later.
Dr Shridhar Vyankatesh Ketkar (MA PhD) was a sociologist, historian and Marathi novelist. Born in 1884, in Raipur in present-day Chhattisgarh, Dr Ketkar studied at Wilson College in Mumbai. During his graduation, he left for the United States in 1906, and obtained a master’s degree and a PhD from Cornell University in 1911. He returned to India after spending a year in London, where he met his future wife Edith Kohn.
Dr Ketkar is widely known as the chief editor of the first ever encyclopaedia in Marathi, which comprised selected writings of Indian and European scholars, Maharashtriya Jnanakosha. He also published several scholarly papers, founded and ran three magazines and wrote six novels, each with a strong sociological theme. Brahmankanya (1930) was the fifth.
Shanta Gokhale is a bilingual writer, translator and theatre critic. Both her Marathi novels, Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi, have won Maharashtra State awards and been translated by her into English. Her most recent books are her memoir, One Foot on the Ground, and Shivaji Park. She has translated Smritichitre: The Memoirs of a Spirited Wife by Lakshmibai Tilak, for which she received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation, 2021, and the novel Kautik on Embers (Dhag) by Uddhav J. Shelke, besides several plays. She is the author of Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present; and the editor of The Scenes We Made: An Oral History of Experimental Theatre in Mumbai, among others.
She has received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for overall contribution to the performing arts and lifetime achievement awards from Thespo, Ooty Literary Festival and Tata Literature Live!.
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