[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1940] caste

From: Janet Isserlis (Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 14:28:47 EST


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One way that I learn alot about the world is through fiction.  A 
novel by Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, helped me begin to know 
what questions I even needed to start to ask about caste.  I don't in 
any way mean to devalue this important discussion, or to lessen the 
importance of non fiction; but I would be curious to know if others, 
who know more about caste than I do, and might have read the book, 
feel that well written, accurate (true to its locale/people) fiction 
can work well as a vehicle for learning.

Janet Isselris



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