Questions About Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

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Aomame* I loved the first three stories (the jaina who starves heself to death, the teyyan dancer and the sacred prostitute Rani). Sadly I found stories to be…moreI loved the first three stories (the jaina who starves heself to death, the teyyan dancer and the sacred prostitute Rani). Sadly I found stories to become less and less engaging as the book moved on: to me, it was as if Dalrymple played his ace card at the very beginning. After that, reading became kinda tedious...(less)

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Is this a book of short stories are a full-length novel?

Dmitri They are short stories but not fiction.

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What happened to prassanmati mataji? Did she also stop eatimg completely and left the world?

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