| Pachola | |
| Author: | R. R. Borade |
| Translator: | Sudhakar Marathe |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Marathi |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Set In: | Marathwada, Maharashtra, India. |
| Pub Date: | 1971 |
| English Pub Date: | 1999 |
Pachola (पाचोळा), Fall, is a short, Marathi-language novel written R. R. Borade. Published in 1971, Pachola is a story of Parvati, wife of a tailor, through emotional stresses created in the lives of village craftsmen because of modernization.[1] The story is narrated from the viewpoint of Parvati and describes the pathetic fall of her family life. It is written in Osmanabadi dialect of Marathi, which gives it a rural flavour and lends it authenticity and charm.
Pachola established R. R. Borade's reputation as a fiction writer.[2] Sudhakar Marathe translated it into English as Fall, which was published by National Book Trust in 1999.[3]