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Aavarana

The Veil

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Aavarana

By: Sandeep Balakrishna - translator, S. L. Bhyrappa
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
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Aavarana: The Veil by S. L. Bhyrappa is a story of a free-spirited and rebellious young woman, Lakshmi, who marries the man she is deeply in love with. Amir, her husband, requests she convert to Islam, and she reluctantly agrees. Despite her father being completely against the marriage, she breaks ties with him and changes her name to Razia. However, things change for the worse, and she discovers a different side to Amir. He is not the progressive and liberal person she thought he was. He, along with his family, forces her into practicing Islam. This sets Lakshmi on a journey to uncover India's history of religion, caste, and creed. And she finds out that although Indian society has come a long way over the centuries, it still remains as rigid as before.

©2014 S. L. Bhyrappa, Translation Copyright Sandeep Balakrishna (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Classics Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Marriage Middle East
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The most intriguing book about the systematic damage caused by Islamic Invaders and how Indians are brainwashed to make these invaders the heros and how True Indian heros are forgotten

Outstanding & Riveting details

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I loved its interesting plot, the narration was quite gripping ! An informative work 👍

History of Bharat dissected.

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Unveils the mechanism undertaken by elite historians in India through several decades to mislead students and citizens through a severely tilted ideology.
I was initially skeptical to try the audio version of the translation. Wish I could read the original Kannada version. However the translation is great and I didn’t feel anything lost in translation. Makes the book feel like an english language original. The audio component though could have been better. The reader isn’t great pronouncing Indian origin words and names and is mostly monotonous.

Phenomenal book. Shows research.

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The narrator is exceptionally good - she changes registers between male and female voices so credibly. The story has highly discomfiting moments of brutality and pathos.

Excellent Narration

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This book is for Indian History and how Muslim rulers did atrocities,Our so called liberals and intellectuals hide the facts. As rightly said, the truth is not to upset any sectors of society, but to know the facts. We should not go away from truths but accept it and learn from it

History and research

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One of the greatest novel by one of the greatest Kannada and Indian novelist and writer. Period.

Great novel by SLB

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Really a great book and nice articulation . Every Indian should read or hear this book.

A must read

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I found my answer for my long lasting question of how to coup up the anger, sorrow over the Islamic invasion and the destruction followed that after in that period in Bharat.

A must read book for a secular & a liberal

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Must read! This book's storytelling technique of story within a story is brilliant. I hope it gets translated into all the major world languages

Outstanding book

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learnt about Indian history in a nut shell, must read for everyone . , ,

historical masterpiece

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