GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Question
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Shashi Deshpandey
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Jorge Bush
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Shashi Tharur
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -This book reflects the story of a few women, and their struggles of life. Their lives amalgamate, and each one deals with her own personal anguish. This story works on different stratas of life; personal, worldly, feminist views, women’s rights, communalism, motherhood, and more.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main characters of this novel Madhu, Savitribai, Munni and Leela, along with their feminine qualities exercise their independence, courage, intellectual energy, rationality and ambition. They do not compromise with their dignity while solving their problems rationally.
Detailed explanation-3: -Leela is a writer, sent by the small magazine company she works with, to write a biography on the famous singer Savitribai (now known throughout the novel as Bai). Madhu finds out that Bai was her next door neighbour and that she was good friends with her daughter Munni.