Mahashweta
by
Sudha
Murty
Penguin
Books India
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This
novel deals with the stigma of leukoderma, a skin disease which makes the
patient’s skin colour turn pale white.
The
novel has its links with the character of Mahashweta in Banabhatta’s classic
work, ‘Kadambari’. While Banabhatta made
it a happy ending, life doesn’t always give one a ‘lived happily ever after’
type of ending. While the Mahashweta of Kadambari wears white to get her
beloved, Pundarika, back to life, the Mahashweta of this novel turns
white. The link is just in the white
colour.
