The background of Portrait of a Tiger, a collection of short stories by DebabrataMadanray, is very different from almost all other volumes of short stories. Strange are its pictures, characters and incidents. Reality too is strange. Here one enters rural territory, city and also the life of tribal people. The reality of Portrait of a Tiger has transcended the limits of time past and present, memory and dream, the real and unreal, fact and fantasy. The book ...