Samskara

Samskara  is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe’s  Things Fall Apart  and Tayeb Salih’s  Season of Migration to   the North . Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means “rite of passage” but also “moment of recognition,” it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously flouted the rules of caste and purity for years, eating meat, drinking