India, May 22 -- A charmed circle denotes a group of individuals who are "special" in some way. As a result, they possess power and privilege. The idea builds on the concept of a centre and its peripheries. A charmed circle would be dead centre, its members occupying the dominant spots across all spectrums of identity including sex, gender, race, religion, region, ethnicity, or class (among other things). The more the individual diverges, the farther away from the centre they end up being. By cleverly assigning the title Worlds within Worlds to the English translation of Ajay Navaria's Hindi novel, Udhar ke Log, Nita Kumar ably highlights the insidious violence of caste hierarchy where the oppressed in turn oppresses the groups "below" th...