the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism’s most flagrant corruptions—caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow’s suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband ...

Perumal Murugan’s Pyre , translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is on the International Man Booker Prize long list for 2023. “Meditative, joyous, humbling” — three words Aniruddhan Vasudevan ...