Mahashweta by Sudha Murthy

My first book by Sudha Murthy was Mahashwetha a very simple but beautiful book in such simple language that you actually fall in love with the writing. Sudha Murthy employs the hallmark of great Indian writers by writing in simple prose a beautiful story of a beautiful young girl from a village in Karnataka falling in love with a rich guy and then being scorned upon being visited by an illness which is seen as a curse by the poor thinking rural Indian folk. Her family also ditches her and at one point in the story, I thought Kamala Markandeya was writing the story, such was the depth of the suffering of the girl. The story moves onto Bombay and the attitudinal change amongst the people is remarkable because nobody in Bombay ever cares to question or doubt the girl for her illness. On one hand it shows Bombay as a caring city yet also as a fast moving metropolis where people hardly have time to even think and dwell upon other people's sufferings. Beautiful book by Sudha Murthy. Highly recommended