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Rainbow at Noon (Celestial, Rs 145) by Dhiruben Patel is an English translation of a Gujarati novel, Agantuk, which had won the Sahitya Akademi Award. The story dwells on how Ishan, the sannyasi who returns to his home in Mumbai, is treated thereafter by the ‘material world’. Ishan can “navigate his soul out of the world and back into it”. Through Ishan’s spiritual journey, the novel delves into notions of sannyas and the self, and asks a stirring question — “what of the sannyasi who turns his back on renunciation itself?” Raj Supe’s translation is smooth, lucid and displays a rare sensitivity.
— The Telegraph, Calcutta, Friday , March 25 , 2011
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