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'What are the consequences of uncontrolled power and of unhindered desire? How do the arrogance of upper caste power in Nancharaiah and the awakening of the rights of the underprivileged from the Madiga community play out in the village of Vejendla? How do the political intrigues and contours of love clash in the lives of Ramudu, Suvvi and Chandiri? Does the desire to educate herself empower a Madiga woman to free herself from the clutches of patriarchy and remain unconquered? These are but a few questions that Kolakaluri Enoch's novel, Randhi: Of Power and Desire, unfurls in a translation by…mehr

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'What are the consequences of uncontrolled power and of unhindered desire? How do the arrogance of upper caste power in Nancharaiah and the awakening of the rights of the underprivileged from the Madiga community play out in the village of Vejendla? How do the political intrigues and contours of love clash in the lives of Ramudu, Suvvi and Chandiri? Does the desire to educate herself empower a Madiga woman to free herself from the clutches of patriarchy and remain unconquered? These are but a few questions that Kolakaluri Enoch's novel, Randhi: Of Power and Desire, unfurls in a translation by Kaki Madhava Rao that seeks to match the power of the original. ALLADI UMA and M. SRIDHAR
Autorenporträt
ACHARYA KOLAKALURI ENOCH, Padma Shri awardee and Colonel (honorary) of the Government of India; Vice Chancellor (S.V. University, Tirupati); principal (S.K. University Ananthapur); Professor of Telugu, Emeritus Professor of UGC and Writer in Residence of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi has been a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, literary critic and researcher besides being a translator and biographer, with 104 literary works to his credit. Dr Enoch has been championing the cause of the neglected, the Dalits, the women, the backward classes, the tribes and religious minorities in his literary pursuits.His several awards include the Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi award for a short story (1987), a play (1989), and literary criticism (1998). He received the 2015 Moortidevi Award of Jnanpith, New Delhi for the novel Ananta Jeevanam, and the national Sahitya Akademi award for Vimarshini in 2018. His works have been translated into Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Manipuri, Odiya, English, German and French. Scholars have worked on his writings for doctoral and postdoctoral research. His works have been prescribed for study at the undergraduate and postgraduate level by Indian universities.