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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The book contains eleven stories of folk heroes and heroines immortalized through the ballads sung by generations of artists belonging mostly to the lower castes of the society of Mithila. The heroes themselves belonged to those castes and are depicted to be benevolent, brave and always ready to fight for injustice. Several of them are worshipped as deities and have temples also constructed for them.
Yogendra Pathak Viyogi
The author is a retired scientist of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. He has written extensively on topics of popular science in addition to novels, short stories, drama and satire in Maithili, having published fifteen books in Maithili. He received several awards as well. In English his works consist of “Bhartis’Cat”, a translation of Maithili novel ‘Bhartik Biladi’ by Braj Kishor Varma ‘Manipadma’, “Folktales of Mithila” and “Gonu Jha of Mithila (Tales of wit and humour)”.
