Burnt : Beyond Return

Name: Burnt
Brand: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
SKU: 9789354427626
Price: 5400 KES
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ISBN: 9789354427626

by Basudev Sunani

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 9354427626

ISBN-13 9789354427626

Publisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 15th, 2025

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 334 grams

Dimensions 14.40 x 21.60 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Fiction in translation

KSh 5,400.00

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Based on a true 2012 incident, Basudev Sunani’s Odia novel Padapodi—from pada or locality and podi, which means burnt—is an urgent reckoning with India’s caste realities.

When an upper-caste mob sets fire to a Dalit settlement in Lathore village, Odisha, forty families become homeless overnight—refugees in their own land. Seen through the unflinchingly honest eyes of Makaru, a Dalit migrant settled in Raipur, returning to his ancestral village after years of exile, Burnt is a powerful meditation on memory, trauma and survival. As he journeys by train to the place he had fled as a boy, Makaru also journeys deep into his childhood, tracing the roots of caste violence and resilience that have shaped his community, and confronting memories he wants to forget. The train—linking past and present—is a symbol of mobility and change, and a vital catalyst of Dalit self-awareness and emancipation.

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