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Recommendations for Indian books translated to English starting with the letter ‘Z’ Zindaginama  by Krishna Sobti, translated from the Hindi (Devnagiri script) by Neel Kanwar Mani and Moyna Mazumdar. Footprints on Zero Line: Writings on the Partition  by Gulzar, translated from the Urdu and Hindi by Rakshanda Jalil Zafarnama  by Guru Gobind Singh translated from the Persian by Navtej Sarna  This is a part of  BlogchatterA2Z2026  challenge #penbooksandscalpel

BOOK NAME: THE GOSPEL OF YUDAS AUTHOR NAME: K R MEERA (TRANSLATED FROM THE MALAYALAM BY RAJESH RAJAMOHAN) GENRE: POLITICAL FICTION  PUBLISHER : PENGUIN INDIA BOOK REVIEW I read two books for the Malayalam translation readathon in 2025, one of which was this outstanding political fiction by K.R. Meera, carved out of the tension that rose during the emergency in India.  In this novella, the author has gone to great lengths to establish the criminal atrocities committed by people in power against those who cast their voices during the emergency rule. The protagonist, Prema, the daughter of an ex-policeman who was involved in the brutal torture of Naxalite rebels, seeks an escape from his clutches. Not until later does she meet J.U. Das, aka Yudas, whose passionate work is to retrieve dead bodies from the lake and then disappear. Prema develops an intense liking for the strange man who calls himself a traitor, giving away his Naxalite rebel friends to brutality. But in a land t...

Recommendations for Indian books translated to English starting with the letter ‘X’ Oxford India Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing  edited by Ravikumar. D, and R. Azhagarasan Oxford India Anthology of Modern Malayalam Literature edited   by P. P. Raveendran, G. S. Jayasree and Mini Krishnan Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing  edited by k. Purushotham, Gita Ramasamy, and Gogu Shyamala Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature  edited by Mehr Afshan Farooqi Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry  edited by Vinay Dharwadker, and A. K. Ramanujam Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing  edited by M. Dasan,V. Pratibha, Pradeepan Pampirikunnu and C. S. Chandrika Oxford India Anthology of Bengali Literature  edited by Kalpana Bardhan This is a part of  BlogchatterA2Z2026  challenge #penbooksandscalpel