for real-world politics, all the. Moon at our back wind in our hair we ride into the unknown we all deserve to be free shirt . beauty that Pampa Kampana brought to life is destroyed—but still, we are promised that the fortunes of the people will rise again. As a reader whose knowledge of medieval Indian history is sparse—if I can claim it to be existent at all—I was surprised to later discover just how much historical fact was embedded in Rushdie’s narrative.
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Many of the events described are actually. Moon at our back wind in our hair we ride into the unknown we all deserve to be free shirt . recorded in historical archives, but where the historian might speculate, Rushdie chooses instead to mythologize. If not through the character of Pampa Kampana herself, magic manifests throughout the history of the ancient kingdom. Some characters are proffered unnaturally long lives; others betray supernatural powers that go on to alter the course of real-world history. All the while, Rushdie reminds us—his narrative voice disguised as a mere translator of Pampa Kampana’s own first-hand telling of the tale—that the tides will turn again. “The truth about these so-called golden ages is that they never last very long,” prophesies a Portuguese horse trader under the reign of Deva Raya II, the emperor who ordered the construction of the Vitthala Temple, now in Hampi, India. “There’s always trouble ahead.” Nearly two centuries later, Pampa Kampana herself will say it best as she writes her immortal