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Samskara : A Rite for a Dead Man by Ananthamurthy, U. R.; Ramanujan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 alcohol, marrying beneath him, mocking God, unexpectedly falls ill and dies. The question of whether he should be buried as a Brahmin divides the other Brahmins in the village. For an answer they turn to Praneshacharyah, the most devout and respected member of their community, an ascetic who also tends religiously to his invalid wife. Praneshacharyah finds himself unable to provide the answer, though an answer is urgently needed since as he wonders and the villagers wait and the body festers, more and more people are falling sick and dying. But when Praneshacharyah goes to the temple to seek a sign from God, he discovers something else entirely—unless that something else is also God. Samskara  is a tale of existenti

Who reads Samskara : A Rite for a Dead Man?

Author

Ananthamurthy, U. R.; Ramanujan

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590179130

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.87 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13