Free Download Perumal Murugan, "Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience"
English | ISBN: 935280497X | 2018 | 252 pages | EPUB | 857 KB
Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives―food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one’s existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent.

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