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Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag
Translated by Srinath Perur
‘That single moment’s intensity hasn’t been matched in my life before or since. A woman who I didn’t know has chosen to accept me, in body and mind.’
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‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
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Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbhag is the author of five story collections, two plays and three novels, including Ooru Bhanga (Hometown Breaks). He is an engineer by training and lives in Bengaluru.
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Srinath Perur translates from the Kannada and is the author of the travelogue If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai. He lives in Bengaluru.
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