This book of Telugu stories is a timeline of social change
Live MintThe 21 stories in this latest instalment of the The Greatest Stories Ever Told series from Aleph Book Company can be some, or all, these things to readers: a refresher-in-translation of a rich literary culture they grew up with but have since forgotten, a portal to worlds and words that remind them of a home they miss, or a way to access lives and sensibilities that are at once familiar yet different in idiom and register. Dasu Krishnamoorty and Tamraparni Dasu, a father-daughter translator duo, have curated a list of Telugu short stories by modern and contemporary stars, ranging from the 1894-born philosopher Chalam to the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar awardee Vempalli Gangadhar. He may be known more as a playwright and poet but, as G. Sriramamurthy writes in a 1974 edition of the Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature journal, “…the credit of deliberately creating a new literary genre of short story in the modern sense of the word…with a social purpose, perhaps, should go to him. The Telugu Muslim commentary on social experience is poignant, with stories like The Curtain by Vempalle Shareef and A Mother’s Debt by Khadeer Babu.
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