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Astride the Wheel is a quiet tale of the last years of a temple priest in rural Orissa and his acceptance of monotonous poverty—the fate of most Indian villagers. Sanatan Dase dimly senses that a great freedom lies beyond his wife’s continuous complaints, the petty social insults he bears, and the endless shortages in his life. The first half of the novel is set in a village in Orissa. In its second half, the reader leaves behind the claustrophobic Brahmin ...
Twenty five stories handpicked here by the author are from a wide range of choice. Every story has a grip of its own, some of them very moving like Father Samuel, Silent prayer for Runi or the youngest daughter; others eerie and mysterious like True of false? Yayati, The story of the absentee or The dream peddler and yet others loaded with pathos like Museum, The bird of passage. A subtler form of love oozes out of stories like At midnight today or The woman with ...