Dear Friends,
My e-book journey continues.
This time, it is a collection of adult short stories.
Here is the link:
And here is the preface:
Most of the stories in
this collection were written by a younger self. This self grew up in Kolkata
and came of age in the 1980s. At that time, India was conservative and sexually
repressed. Intermingling between the sexes was not easy. There were no
Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Whatsapp and Google hangouts. Or mobile phones. And
yet, we managed somehow. We all had a few affairs… only the memories remain.
Some of the stories are
based on gossip that I heard of people I hardly knew anything about. But I
tried to flesh them out in my imagination. So, there are tales of the rage
caused by impotence, the sexual frustration of fat people and how they try to
solve it, and the metaphorical stabbing of one spouse on the other when an
extra-marital affair comes to light.
The themes are ancient
but I hope the treatment is different.
Human beings have
behaved the same throughout history. This was confirmed to me by Dr. Irving
Finkel, of the British Museum, who spent 30 years studying cuneiform tablets,
belonging to the Mesopotamian society of 3000 years ago. And, at that time
also, there were leaders who promised a lot, cheating businessmen and husbands
and wives opting for divorce because they could not live with each other.
In this collection,
only two stories have been published. ‘The Ageing Lion’ was published in the
now-defunct Debonair magazine, while ‘The Inner Drama’ appeared in the
Telegraph Colour Magazine in the ‘Fiction Selected by Khushwant Singh’ column.
Grateful thanks to ABP
Private Limited, Kolkata, for giving permission to publish it.
I am surprised at the
raunchiness and the liberal use of four-letter words by this younger self. But
then we all go through this youthful phase.
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