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This volume features the work of four major writers of the short story in Oriya--Fakirmohan Senapati, Gopinath Mohanty, Kishori Charan Das and Manoj Das. The selected stories, some well known, some less so, indicate the vitality and strength of this vastly popular literary form in its hundred years of development in Orissa. They also introduce the reader to the variety within the writing of individual authors and to their particular styles and concerns.
Tarun Roy, a clerk in a British trading company in pre-independence Calcutta, comes with his wife and daughter to Puri for a weekend holiday, hoping to escape briefly the tensions of lower middle class existence. He dutifully visits the Jagannath temple and the sea-shore, like any ordinary tourist, but finds his life transformed through a variety of mystical experiences, and returns to the city with a new understanding of life.