Myriad Strands, shaded and shadowed, gathered from the little joys and sorrows of life have gone into the weave of The Warp and the Weft and Other Stories. The volume opens windows into the rich and diverse variety of life with a remarkable depth and sensitivity. The stories span the historical and cultural heterogeneity of the sprawling Indian subcontinent, from the Southern Coastal Tip of Kerala, to the complex Quagmire of inland metros. These horizontal shifts ...