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082 _aHAR G
100 _aHariharan, Githa
245 _aI have become the tide
260 _aNew Delhi
_bSimon & Schuster
_c2019
300 _a322
520 _aI Have Become The Tide 'Where is that land where water flows free? A powerful, beautifully imagined novel from Gita Hariharan asks when the tide will turn to make this dream real. Hundreds of years ago, chikka, son of a cattle Skinner, finds a home in anandagrama, among people who believe everyone is equal; people whose prayer is inseparable from song and work, the river and the land, friendship and love. Chikka becomes chikkiah the washerwoman who sings by his beloved river. But the anandagrama movement against caste is torn apart and its men and women slaughtered or forced to flee. In the present
650 _aEnglish Fiction
650 _aLiterary
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