How do villagers respond to pornography? Not very differently from their big-city cousins, we discover in the wonderfully comic ‘Chandu and the Bissyaar’, one of the 18 evocative stories in Neelam Saran Gour’s third successful book of fiction. Some of the other stories portray a vivid kaleidoscope of provincial bazaars, claustrophobic bedrooms, cemeteries, courtyards, hospital corridors and park benches, we are introduced to varied and colorful characters forging unexpected emotional bonds with friends, lovers, strangers and kins, tangled in the skeins of dreams, deceptions, anxieties, lusts and joys.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neelum Saran Gour
Neelum Saran Gour is the author of two collections of short stories, Grey Pigeon and Other Stories (1993) and Winter Companions and Other Stories (1997), and three novels, Speaking of ’62 (1995), Virtual Realities (2002), and Messres Dickens, Doyle and Wodehouse Private Limited (2005). She has been a humour columnist for the Hindustan Times. Her short stories have been published in a number of Indian and international journals. She has been the Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent, UK, and is currently professor of English at Allahabad University.
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