The book contains thirteen short stories and four sketches, several of which appeared in Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (Warangal) and Triveni (Hyderabad) since 1999. The short stories deal with aspects of contemporary Indian life like the academia, brain drain, unemployment, political corruption, and middle-class existence. There is also the backdrop of the subcultures of Andhra and Telangana and the Hyderabad City. Interaction between the subcultures and between the Indian life and the American also has been depicted. The four sketches ("Sermons in Stones", "Batukamma", "Medaram Jatra" and "Dwaraka Tirumala") deal with the subcultures of Andhra and Telangana. The Indian subcultures constitute the warp and woof of the exquisite tapestry of the Indian life today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D Ramakrishna
D. Ramakrishna is Professor of English, at Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh. He was at the Universtiy of Texas at Austin and the City University of New York in 1992 on Senior Fulbright Post-Doctoral Felowship, doing advanced research on the subject of his Ph.D., Edgar Allan Poe's fiction. He published The Craft of Peo's Tales, Perspectives on Peo, and Explorations in Poe. Two of the anthologies editied by him, The american Classics Revisited: Recent Studies of american Literature and Indian English Prose: An Anthology were prescribed for M.A. at several Indian Universities. He contributed a chapters "Poe of India" to the book Poe Abroad edited by Lois D. Vines and published by the University of lowa Press in the U.S. Also he published theirty-four papers in the Indian and American journals including SPAN, The Emerson Soceity Quarterly, and The Explicator. Professor Ramakrishna is currently working on a critical book, Gothic Resonances: Poe in Modern and Postmodern american Fiction; a collection of short stories, the Millennial Vision and Stories; and a novel, The Confluence.
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