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Chidambara Rahasya is a novel written by Poornachandra Tejaswi. This novel depicts the state of a small Indian village in humorous manner. This book has murder investigation, caste system, communal riots, blind beliefs, love story, cardamom plants, friendship, youth rebels, land lords, untouchables, politics of the village. In 2006, Girish Karnad made a teleserial based on the novel<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">[1]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">[2]</sup> This book won the Sahitya Academy Award for Kannada in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">[3]</sup> It was translated into English by P. P. Giridhar as The Inscrutable Mystery. The translation was published by Sahitya Akademi.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Hindu_2011_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">[4]</sup>