Ravi abandons a bright academic career and a research offer from Princeton University. It is crafted in the form of the spiritual journey of an under-graduate dropout, Ravi, plagued by the guilt of an illicit affair he had with his stepmother. Khasakkinte Itihasam does not have a single narrative plot. Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as Players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible Similar to the DAISY option above however, this option uses MP3įiles created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas With a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality Layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Books thatĬontain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Just about every type of access technology that reads text. (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format.ĭAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with The features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link. Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all Offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare To learn more about usingīookshare with your device, visit the Help Center. The muscled Kuttappu-Nari, whose tribe for generations lived and flourished snaring and trading in tigers.Select your format based upon: 1) how you want to read your book, andĢ) compatibility with your reading tool. Appu-Kili, the cretinous dwarf boy, whose sport it is to lasso dragonflies. Chukkru, the Diving Fowl, who earns his keep by plunging into wells to retrieve submerged chattel.
More fascinating still are the characters. And then there are the clouds of dragonflies carrying in their crystalline eyes the souls of the village ancestors. Then there is the tamarind tree whose teeming fruit rots every season, for no man whose wife is unchaste may climb it and survive: a gauntlet few men dare run.
It is from them that the people of Khasak trace descent and it is the Sheikh who benignly presides over their lives. That night the horse died and was buried in the grove, and the horsemen decided to pitch tent there. In times unknown there came riding into the palm grove of Khasak a cavalcade of a thousand and one Badrins, warriors blessed by the Prophet.Īt the head rode the holiest, Sayed Mian Sheikh, but on a horse old and ill (for the infirm find succour in Allah). There are the living tales, such as the saga of the village. Life here has lessons no books can illumine.
The reality of Khasak, like the reality of thousands of villages across India, is a live-wire grid of potent myths, superstitions, symbols and divine presences.
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