Book Review | How humanity redeems the individual
Deccan ChronicleThe collection of fifteen short stories is set in various locales — different states of India and abroad — and encompasses the rural-urban, literate-illiterate map of humanity in its sweep of universal emotions. The stories effectively bridge these gaps and binaries as they evoke human — and humaneness in the situations they depict and the ways in which the protagonists meet challenges, surmount difficulties or are caught in the vicious trap of circumstances. They thus transcend all barriers of space, time, distance, gender… Whether it is the exercise of free will, the courage and strength of the common man/woman and the rising above personal grief and guilt to offer compassion and service to another, despair and sometimes, its antidote, revenge and deliverance the devastating discovery of an idol’s hideous feet of clay — the stories cover myriad themes, and emotions flit across them as though on the expressive countenance of an animated speaker holding forth with passion and intensity. Most of the stories have women at the centre who emerge as strong beings inspite of going through situations that could well have turned them into pathetic victims always bemoaning their fate.
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