Jagadamba

The Kasturba Story

Ramdas Ganesh Bhatkal

Translated by Yashodhara Deshpande Maitra

 

5 x 8.5 inches, 140pp. 2016

ISBN : 9780857422972

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'Wives of great men have hard lives, often lived in negation of values they hold most dear. [Bhatkal's Jagadamba is] the personal feelings of a devoted wife who had held her own in a life made mentally, physically and morally turbulent by her husband's ideas and political work.'—Shanta Gokhale in her Introduction to Jagadamba.

Originally conceived in Marathi for actress Rohini Hattangadi, Jagadamba was first published in 2010 and attempts to peek into the little-known area of Kasturba's life with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It is a unique attempt to chart the life, in her own voice, of a simple girl from Porbandar who goes on to become the Universal Mother in her role as the wife of the Mahatma. Jagadamba has been performed in Marathi, Hindi and English in India and abroad.

Ramdas Ganesh Bhatkal has been a publisher since 1952. He has published books in English, Hindi and Marathi. His other works on Gandhi include Mohanmaya (2007) and the unpublished PhD thesis ‘Gandhi and his Adversaries: Savarkar and Ambedkar’ (2007). He is also a classical vocalist specialized in the Hindustani Bhatkhande tradition.

 

Yashodhara Deshpande Maitra taught natural sciences at the National Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York. The translator of several major works of fiction and non-fiction from Marathi into English, she has also performed as Kasturba in recent productions of Jagadamba.

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