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A collection of short stories by Keki N Daruwalla, the acclaimed poet-cum-novelist at his very best. There are new stories here written especially for this book in a span of less than two months and perennial favourites still relevant in today’s changed times. The collection showcases the author’s enduring range.
The new stories are first person narratives and, with the exception of one, voices of women – city women – putting into words ...
In his first novel noted poet and short story writer Keki N. Daruwalla brings alive a world of tumultuous voyaging during the time of Vasco da Gama an era when the quest for exotic spices triggered a passionate desire for exploration. Legends of a magnificent Christian dominion, nestled in the heart of the East and ruled by the fabled Prester John, also generated an intense curiosity about the lands bordering the Indian Ocean. Traversing the ocean from the ...
Keki N. Daruwalla’s short stories circle around islands-solitary tracts of land, self-contained mini-continents. Sometimes, these autonomous landmasses are conjured up in a sadhu’s third-eye-Yogananda builds them like he would a dreamscape. Sometimes, they transform into objects of desire- Arnaaz sails towards the declining sun, in search of an islet of aloneness and youth. Sometimes, they come with the promise of abundance-Vidyarthi scours his reef ...
This is Keki Daruwalla’s ninth collection of verse. Known for his wide choice of subjects, he roams even further afiled in The Map-maker. In this volume he experiments with monologues and narrative verse. These dramatic pieces are often praised out of dark and unknown crevices of history. He bares the souls of his protagonists and in the same breath unfolds a story. A young student fleeing to Jaffa and Tel Aviv from Nazi pogroms explains how he took to Hebrew. ...
Riding the Himalayas is a unique travelogue right up to Kibitho, the easternmost point of the Himalayas. This team of car rallyists (mostly ladies), wildlife experts and photographers went through mountain deserts, tropical forests and the highest motorable road on the planet. The adventures were remarkable-a horrendous rock-fall in Uttarkashi, a riot in Badrinath, Pakistani guns opening up near Kargil, and river crossings with Mahindra's Scorpios hitched ...
A House in Ranikhet contains sixteen stories, including a cluster of stories around a group of characters in Ranikhet. The locales are far-flung, both in space and time.A House in Ranikhet is Keki N Daruwalla’s third volume of short stories after Sword and Abyss (1979) and The Minister for Permanent Unrest (1996), which included a novella set in Latin America. While his first volume contained considerable experimental fiction, his novella dealt with the ...