Gomantak is the story of an idyllic village on Maharashtra's Konkan coast, which graphically describes the Portuguese misrule, during which they forcibly converted Hindus to Christianity en masse and held bloodcurdling Inquisitions terrorizing Hindus, destroying their places of worship, snatching their wealth, livelihood and even their families. Written in verse by Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Gomantak is as much a spirited story of personal triumph as it is of the Maratha conquest of the Konkan. Seen through the eyes of a kidnapped little boy who is then converted and enslaved, Gomantak takes the reader through a roller-coaster ride of many moods and struggles and ends on a high note. The little boy's travails and ultimate triumph are metaphors for the village, the Konkan region, and our country.
Manjula Tekal loves to make sense of stories separated by place, time and context. She has transitioned to writing after a long and successful corporate career. She is the author of Devayani, a novel based on a story from the Mahabharata, set in pre-Rigvedic times. She is now working on a second novel based on a puranic story. Her literary translations include Dr Babu Krishnamurthy's Azad, the Invincible (English) and Jagmohan's My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir (Kannada). Savarkar's The Moplah (English), K. S. a's The Last Moments of Krishna's Life (English) and Narayanacharya's Sankrant Sanu's The English Medium Myth (Kannada) are on the anvil. Several of her articles have been featured in Indica Today.
Manjula holds master's degrees in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Manjula is on Twitter (@Akumallaji), Instagram (@mtvji), and Facebook (Manjula Tekal). She lives in Champaign, Illinois.
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