In one of this writer's works, a clerk named Dandeker embarks on a journey to heal "the growth on his wife's womb."  Another of this author's works focuses on the divergent paths of two peasant girls,
In one of this writer's works, a clerk named Dandeker embarks on a journey to heal "the growth on his wife's womb."  Another of this author's works focuses on the divergent paths of two peasant girls, one of whom chooses to remain in her home village while the other runs off to the city.  That work, Two Virgins, was preceded by another work depicting how Richard's ethnicity leads to tension with his love Mira.  In addition to Some Inner Fury, this author explored the perils of modernization in a novel about the newly arrived British engineer Clinton, who loses his young wife Helen, to a man named Bashiam, as he builds the title structure in The Coffer Dams. This writer created such characters as Ravi who struggles to interact with his wife Nalini and his son Raju, after moving to Madras, as well as the long suffering couple Nathan and Rukmani in the 1954 novel that made her name.  For 10 points, identify this Indian author of A Handful of Rice and Nectar in a Sieve.
In one of this writer's works, a clerk named Dandeker embarks on a journey to heal "the growth on his wife's womb."  
Kamala Markandaya