Author: Bandhu Sharma
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Rajendra Prasad Sharma
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 76
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788126027569
Description
Meel Pattar, the award-winning collection of short-stories, is noted for the variety of themes and treatment. Subject like the insurgency in the State and the Kargil war are handled in the stories with a rare sensitivity.
Stories in the anthology are also considered as comment on life and careful weighing of religion, philosophy and arts. On every page, the reader is charmed by the directness, the lucidity and the sincerity of the author’s tone.
About the Translator
Rajendra Prasad Sharma teaches English at the University of Jammu. His main interests are in the Nineteenth Century Fiction, literary criticism and translation. He regularly translated in English and has two books to his credit.
Contents
Introduction
1. A most of three missing pages
2. Platform
3. The Man Incognito
4. Sahoo
5. Home- Coming
6. A Change
7. The Minaret, the River and Raj Nath
8. A warn welcome
9. The Unending Peregrination and the Unending Story
10. Shadow
11. The Sparrow with a ruff