{"product_id":"magunis-bullock-cart-and-other-classic-odia-stories","title":"Maguni's Bullock Cart and Other Classic Odia Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo earn his living, Maguni desperately hopes for passengers to choose his old bullock cart over a bus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA gnarled sahada tree in a family's courtyard bears witness to a series of deaths.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA young woman sold into prostitution faces the hypocrisies of a patriarchal world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRinging with the music of India's regional languages, and peppered with wit and social commentary, these stories are windows to the past and its people-the everyday struggles and joys; the ties of friendship and faith; the politics of love and rejection; the intricacies of betrayal and envy; and the conflicts of class and caste-while continuing to be relevant to our present, puncturing the boundaries of time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow much has Indian society changed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow much of it has not?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mini Krishnan, Leelawati Mohapatra, K.K. Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964677386287,"sku":"9789365691573","price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9789365691573.jpg?v=1771337958","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/magunis-bullock-cart-and-other-classic-odia-stories","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}