Burnt : Beyond Return
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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
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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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