Primarily set on a ship, a chance encounter between a European despised for her inferior race and an Indian insulted by white waiters leads to them finding solace and love in each other. Books by Milind Bokil (Author of Shala) Books by Milind Bokil Milind Bokil Average rating 4. Translated as The Battleground by Yasodhara Deshpande-Maitra Generic (2011 edition)Ī tragic love story between Chandrakhar Vidwans, a Maharashtrian returning from England to India, and Harta, a refugee escaping Hitler’s Germany, Ranangan (meaning ‘battlefield’) questions identity in a world on the brink of World War II. Kulkarni Orient PaperbacksĪ story of greed and desire, Yayati is a story plucked out from the chapters of Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Purana. The novel won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith Award, and Khandekar became the first Marathi writer to receive the latter. Translated as Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust by Y. Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Set in a small Maharashtrian town during the Emergency of 1975, Shala is a heartwarming, nuanced novel about the adolescent struggles that are as tortuous in real time as they are amusing in retrospect.īahinabainchi Gani by Bahinabai Chaudhari Sahitya Prasar Kendra (2014 edition)Ī poetry collection from an illiterate cotton farmer who became a noted Marathi poet posthumously. Translated as Shala by Vikrant Pande HarperPerennial (2014) This collection of short stories went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award. Phoenixchya Rakhetun Uthla Mor by Jayant Pawar Lokvandmay Gurha (2018 edition) Check in every Thursday for a new set of five! This week's selection includes Shala by Milind Bokil and Ranagan by Vishram Bedekar.