HUNGERS DAUGHTERS

She lives in a forest hamlet
in Orissa. With a father presumed dead and a mother gone missing, Susanthi
Bodra is compelled to become a breadwinner at the age of twelve.
Eight-year-old Nelli runs away from her mistress’s home, but is kidnapped
and sold into a brothel in Nagpur. Two decades have passed, and she is yet to
return to her hamlet Kithapur. Gowravva, her mother, is on the hunt to find
her precious daughter.
From the home of the Lesser Known Goddess to the chilli fields of a mother
who has long lost her daughter; from the plush residence of a powerful
minister to a vedic ashram, Nainika Chandra, a journalist and the narrator in
Hunger’s Daughters, brings together the stories of young breadwinners from
the forest hamlets of Jharkhand, Orissa and Karnataka. The book binds the
unexplored shades of poverty and power, with an underlying story of love.