It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Women in Ochre Robes by Meena Khandelwal
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Focuses on the lives of female Hindu ascetics and the significance of gender to the tradition of renunciation. Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who "wear ochre robes, " those who have renounced family and wordly concerns for lives of celibate asceticism and spiritual discipline. Their initiation into the largely male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders them "dead" to their previous identities, and although symbolically "dead, " these women struggle with, and Joke about, the tensions and ironies of living in the world while...
Women in Ochre Robes by Meena Khandelwal is 255 pages long, and a total of 65,025 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Women in Ochre Robes aloud.
Women in Ochre Robes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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