Author: Gangadhar Gadgil
Photographer: Mario Miranda
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 229
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171548695
Description
Uproariously funny and sharply critical, this book is a delightful combination of words and images and leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.
Uproariously funny and sharply critical, 'Husbands and Pumpkins and Others Stories' brings out the quintessential style which we have come to associate with Gangadhar Gadgil — witty, and realistic. What happens when a young Saraswat bride begins life in a Chitpavan Brahmin household or when gossip spread faster than wildfire in a Girgaum chawl or when a person from the Vidharbha region feels like a fish out of water when he visit Mumbai for the first time - these and numerous such stories make up the collection in this book.
The stories bring out so accurately the idiosyncrasies of typical Maharashtrian families residing in Mumbai that one cannot help identifying with the characters. Humorous to the core, the stories nonetheless hold forth a critique of various aspects of society and the lampoons do not fail to hit their mark.
The stories have an old — world charm and bring to life people and events. They also bring alive a different Mumbai - Mumbai as our parents and grandparents knew it. Mario Miranda's distinctive cartoons complement Gadgil's easy style of story — telling and add color to the characters. The book is thus a delightful combination of words and images and does not fail to leave a lasting impression on the reader's mind.
Contents
Moms in the Good Old Days
The Travails of Mother-in-law
A Boy Without a Wadi
Mishaps that Trigger Agitations
Husbands and Pumpkins
Woes of the Grandfathers of Today
Trouble Brews in Girgaum Kitchens
The Decline and Fall of Grandfathers
Trff Over Watermelons
Uncle Nana and Bricks of Gold
Chandu in the Brave New Socialist Order
The Big Silver Rupee