In Their Shadows..

Author: Meera Ramachandran
Publisher: Srishti
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 202
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187075899

Description

This collection of unusual stories, firmly rooted in our tradition and sensibility, reveal the contradictions we carry within us, and how much courage it takes to come to terms with them.

These are the themes of the stories included in this collection. The stories have sprouted from, what for the author began as, a critical inquiry into the contemporary relevance of the ‘supra-rational’ features of our ancient tales. The old archetypal characters are reborn in our present-day world and engage with modern science, business, politics and sports; in venues as diverse as the city of Delhi, the forests of Assam and small town in South India.

‘In Their Shadows…’ presents sensitive portrayals of human beings, who are spurred by love, ambition, parental angst and other emotions that often lead to dramatic turns and twists in their lives. Through extremely moving and absorbing narrative, the author builds bridges between past and present, exploring the timeless and the quintessentially human, amidst the fast-changing modern milieu.

Review:

Though this is her first book, it is of considerable imagination and originality. Meera Ramachendren is a writer of promise.
—Anurag Mathur, author of the Inscrutable Americans

Contents

Acknowledgement
Foreword

The Making of a Star

Kanti’s choice

The Call of the Wild

A Magnificent Obsession

Afterword

The Source Tales