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Novelist, Sena Desai Gopal: The story behind her book, The 86th Village
April 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Author visit at Wellesley Free Library main branch, 530 Washington St.
Sena Desai Gopal grew up in a village in Southern India whose days are numbered – in her lifetime it will drown in the backwaters of one of India’s biggest, most ambitious dams, The Upper Krishna Project. 167 villages will go underwater, and more than 123,000 families will be displaced. The government does not have a concrete rehabilitation plan for these people. Her novel is based in a village like Yadahalli that is doomed to drown but has, miraculously, escaped flooding so far. The setting is non-fiction but the story and characters are fiction. It is a story of love, hate, deception and corruption, but good ultimately prevails.
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