Classics

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In the small Bengal village of Nischindipur, Apu and his sister Durga grow up in genteel poverty, their father a priest and dreamer who is always about to make the…

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Hori, an aging peasant farmer, wants nothing more in life than to own a cow, a small dream that becomes an impossible burden of debt, caste obligation, and village politics…

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Married off to a widower twice her age because her father cannot arrange a match with a man closer to her own years, young Nirmala enters a household thick with…

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Raised as the son of a devout, orthodox Hindu family, Gora is a passionate young nationalist certain of his beliefs and scornful of anything that smells of foreign influence, including…