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The Last Devadasi
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  • Reads 16
  • Votes 9
  • Parts 8
  • Time 15m
Ongoing, First published Jun 16
8 new parts
A girl danced. A god vanished. A war was buried.

In 1999, Satyabhama-the last devadasi of a dying South Indian temple-performed a forbidden dance and vanished into legend. No body. No witnesses. Only ash, broken anklets, and a handprint burned into stone.

Twenty-six years later, Rai Banerjee, a jaded dance scholar, discovers a secret memoir hidden in a hollowed-out textbook. The voice within tells a story of seduction, betrayal, and a temple conspiracy erased from history. But the deeper Rai reads, the more the line between past and present begins to blur.

Because someone is watching.
Someone who remembers.
And someone who will do anything to keep the last devadasi silent.

A lyrical, darkly feminist mystery spanning centuries, The Last Devadasi is a tale of power, art, and the women history tried to erase.
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