Karno's Daughter

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A MAID IN THE CITY A RICE FARMER IN HER VILLAGE RACONTEUR SURVIVOR-KARNO'S DAUGHTER IS THE LIFE STORY OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a biography of Buttermilk the author's maid in Calcutta. She wishes to remain anonymous; Buttermilk is one of her nicknames.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her life straddles the city the village and the suburbs. It brims with stories of betrayal and devastation but also with unexpected aesthetics and love in unlikely places.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This story is a weave of many threads: her family across multiple generations her city work and her struggle as a rice farmer. We follow her across five decades as she forges a life with creativity and grit and one antenna permanently tuned to the land. We witness her tackle brutal pressure and yet remain free of callus.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With wit and spirit Buttermilk lives an uproarious trapeze act without a safety net from god or country. But for how long?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rimli Sengupta came to writing after a half-life in computer science academia. She has written two books in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bengali E-janala</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2009) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rimil-36</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2011) and a work of translation from Bengali </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Indonesia: Travels with Tagore</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2017). Her short fiction has appeared in Civil Lines and the Indian Quarterly. She is the author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Karno's Daughter: The Lives of an Indian Maid</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (Context 2018) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Lost People's Archive: A Novel</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (Aleph 2023).</span></p>