Cradle of the Dead and Other Stories is an interesting and seriously thought-provoking book of short fiction. These are the stories of love, romance and passion that ameliorate and embellish the beauty and meaning of love and life. The situations and characters in half a dozen stories dealing with this theme are realistic in subject and style and the writer, R. K. Bhushan, has shown no impatience or the desire to overstep the limits of art in his narrative art. ...