Whats Your Religion

Kawdu and Bhulabai are a tribal couple living in a tiger reserve somewhere in Maharashtra Their idyllic life gets a rude shock after Kawdu Upendra Limaye who had gone into the forest to fetch a medicinal root for his ailing baby is arrested on charges of having killed a tiger Desperate to save the life of her baby Bhulabai Vibhawari Deshpande rushes to a Christian missionary and showered with care and concern embraces Christianity under the belief that this new god has different powers from her own gods and will solve her problems However freeing her husband from jail is another affair and for this she is advised to seek the help of Naxalites living in the nearby forest through whom she acquires a new deityKarl Marx Even as these new gods find their place on her altar beside Waghdeo and Naagdeo the traditional nature deities of her community the community itself shuts the family out for having dropped its own gods Aparna Pallavi