Valentine's Day 2013 \nMurwani, a village in Maharashtra Three sisters-Anisha, Sanchita and Priyanka-disappear from school that afternoon. No one knows where they went or why, but everyone remembers they were up to no good. Six years later, a journalist from Mumbai returns to the scene of the crime and tries to piece together what exactly happened that fateful day. Hurda is that story told through the voices of the many whose lives intersected with those of the three sisters. Based on a real-life incident, this novel takes a surgical knife to contemporary India and sets up for display its pervasive and deep misogyny. Savagely hilarious and deeply disturbing, a whodunit as well as an examination of what the lives of women are worth, Hurda marks the arrival of a bold new voice from South Asia.
Atharva Pandit is a writer based in Mumbai. His writings have appeared in The Wireandthe Economic and Political Weekly, among other publications. He was the 2021 South Asia Speaks fellow for fiction. Hurda is his first novel.
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