Hitting stores in March 2022, check out the cover of The 86th Village for the first time here and learn about Sena Desai Gopal’s inspiration for the novel.
The 86th Village takes place in a southern Indian village doomed to drown in the backwaters of a dam. The story and characters are fictitious, but the setting is autobiographical. My ancestral village, Yadahalli, will drown in one of India’s biggest dams—The Upper Krishna Project—across the 900-mile long Krishna river. My landowning family has lived in Yadahalli for centuries; 18 generations have farmed the land, growing maize, millets, oilseeds, cotton, and sugarcane.
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