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A Necessary Evil

A Necessary Evil
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): India, Odisha (Orissa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of Calcutta Police must investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharaja’s son… Sam Wyndham is visiting the kingdom of Sambalpore, home to diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun....

Bheda

Bheda
  • Author(s): Akhila Naik
  • Location(s): Odisha (Orissa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Akhila Naik’s Bheda (2010) has the distinction of being the first Odiya Dalit novel. It is set in remote villages of the Kalahandi district in western Odisha mired in poverty, drought, famine, child trade, and malnutrition. The novel traces...

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