Sundara Ramaswamy is one of the most verstile and innovatory of contemporary Tamil writers. The striking thing about his career as a short story writer is that it is in two halves; those stories that he wrote from 1951 to 1966, and those which he wrote after 1973. This collection is a representative of his writings from both the periods. Ever a stylist, employing a language that’s consciously crafted, shorn of rhetoric but brimming with satire, parody, humour ...
