A Brown Man and Other Stories

Author: Prasenjit Gupta
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 221
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171679676

Description

This collection of stories arise out of the writer’s experience of many years as a brown man in a predominantly white world – an everyday encounter that is difficult to imagine from home; an experience that often causes fundamental, tectonic shifts in character and outlook. His characters remain suspended between two continents, two cultures, two different lives.

All too often, migration to the West results in the realization that one’s existence in another culture is compromised in many ways, that one was much happier back home . But by the time this realization occurs, it is too late to return.

Contents

Supriya at Fifty

Pujo Sunshine

First Meeting

The Arrangement

Interview

A Brown Man

The Coming of Indra

Offerings

The Taj by Moonlight

Partho’s Home