"My stories, My family’s stories, were not stories in India.
They were just life.” The first line of Sujatha Gidla’s non-fiction Ants
Among Elephants is an indictment of Indian society well after
untouchability was abolished by the Constitution in 1950. Writing in
2016, Sujatha describes herself as a Christian untouchable: a Mala. The lot of
her cohort in the past was/is to perform whatever menial tasks caste Hindus
require. She is also a Baptist who attended mission schools. She hold
is the author of two novels, Comrade Sahib and A Twisted Cue. He was an assistant editor of The Indian Express and a war correspondent during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
