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“A masterpiece of twentieth-century Hindi poetry that reads as if it were written today.” —Devika Rege

Why are you silent, friends?


What’s happened in Magadh?


Magadh
, Shrikant Verma’s masterpiece, takes its name from the ancient Indian kingdom of Magadh, which rose to prominence in the sixth to second centuries BCE. First published in Hindi in 1984, it is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry.


A chorus of narrators—commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers—...