The ZAMINDAR, THE GOD, THE MONSTER
Devadasi Series - Book 5 by Anand Prakash
A village ruled by rain.
A god who owns bodies.
A woman who refuses silence.
In Kalasharam, power does not announce itself. It just exists.
When Jogeshwari slips out into the night to beg the village zamindar for mercy, she enters a mansion where cruelty speaks the language of devotion and myth. The cries she hears are not crimes-they are ritual. The zamindar, Krishnappa, is more than a man: he is landlord, law, god, and monster fused into one.
As fear spreads through her home, Satiamma-a former devadasi and a mother-faces an impossible choice. She can send her daughter away and survive, or she can return to the source of power and confront what the village has learned to accept. What follows is not a story of rescue or justice, but of exposure-of how violence is normalized, how silence becomes consent, and how communities learn to survive by looking away.
When the rains finally arrive, they do not cleanse Kalasharam. They bind it tighter. Wells fill. Fields soften. Dependence returns. And power settles back into place.
The Zamindar, The God, The Monster is a harrowing social tragedy rooted in Indian myth, caste history, and lived brutality. Unflinching and uncompromising, it examines how domination survives not through secrecy, but through collective permission.
This is not a comfortable read. It is a necessary one.
This book contains graphic violence, explicit language, and disturbing depictions of sexual and ritualized abuse. It explores caste oppression, patriarchal violence, and religious exploitation without dilution or consolation. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
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Anand Prakash is researcher by profession and writer by passion. In his fiction and poetry, he writes about relationships and their meanings. He has finished a collection of short stories and a book of poetry on relationships. Some of his experimental fictions have appeared in z-composition, Crack the Spine, Fictitious magazine, the Delinquent issue 20, Miser magazine issue VII. His writing can be found at http://authoranandprakash.com/
Email him at anandprakash026@gmail.com for comments about the story and questions on writing process. He looks forward to hear back from you.