Summary:
The title of the Marathi book, Indian Animal Farm, provoked curiosity, because it was reportedly premised on the world-renowned Animal Farm allegory written by British novelist-essayist George Orwell. Against this backdrop, I was happy that a Sawantwadi-based Marathi writer, Pravin Dashrath Bandekar, had attempted to "localise" or rather experiment with a magnificently long-lived parable, penned almost 75 years ago. Unfortunately, the Indian Animal Farm fails to catch readers' attention. Indian Animal Farm is built on a weak foundation. Unlike the original, where a pack of farm animals revolt against a tyrannical owner, Bandekar's farm animals align themselves in competing blocs..