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Product Description Tender Wings of a Burning Bird is a translation of my Gujarati short novel, Pankhare Bali Vasant, published in 1999. It is based on a real life tragic incident of a rural teenage girl Devki, published in The Times of India. Devki is an elder daughter of Ganpat and Ganga, living in a village called Bhilad, near Dahanu, Gujarat. Ganpat is a fram labourer and Ganga tries to earn something by doing household work. Devki is good in her studies, but she is suffering from psoriasis and feels that she is being neglected by her parents. Novel begins with the description of Devki s suffering. Dr. Ajay Kothari is treating her in his hospital. Dr. Kothari is aware of the fact that Devki is not only suffering from severe psoriasis but also starving for her parents love and affection. The novel describes how Devki s craving for the love of her parents, is Dragging her deep into the depression. It gives us a true picture of a rural India how people are starving, how children grow up without nourishment. This is the story of poor Devki who is asking the society for happy days of her childhood. Do we care togive her Right to Live? Longing for love and affection is a universal phenomenon and my novel stands for this phenomenon. About the Author Dr.Kalpana Dave is a well-known writer in Gujarati Literature & a freelance journalist. Associated with field of education, after about four decades of experience in teaching in higher education in a college at graduate level, she retired as a Head of Gujarati Dept. from Shri. M.D.Shah Mahila College.(Malad-Mumbai). She is a recipient of Dr.Panna Modi Best TeacherAward (January-2011) awarded by Janseva Samiti N.G.O. Malad, Mumbai. She has also been awarded Gira-Gurjari paritoshik 2nd prize for her short-novel Mrugjal ( 2010 ) by Kala Gurjary, a Lit.organisation. Vile Parle, Mumbai. Her special contribution in Gujarati Literature is in the field of social novel and biography. The novel Tender