Publish Date
26 Jul, 2025
About This Book
In these captivating stories, Endapalli Bharathi brings to life the heart of a small Telugu-speaking community, shining a spotlight on the women who sustain it. Here, individual voices blend into a collective chorus, celebrating the joys and weathering the challenges of village life through shared routines and cultural traditions. These tales don’t chase neat endings; instead, they mirror the flow of life itself—open-ended and authentic. What sets this collection apart is its rare, intimate glimpse into the world of village women, a perspective seldom explored with such depth in Indian Dalit literature.
About The Author
Endapalli Bharathi is a farmer-shepherd in a remote Rayalaseema village. Though she did not complete high school, she was encouraged by the women’s self-help group movement to write narratives of the lives of the working women and their issues in the villages. These incisive stories formed the bulk of her two anthologies, Edari batukulu and Batukeetha and brought to light stories from a much ignored region and peoples.
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