A Christmas Gift and Other Stories

The present collection, consisting of 28 short stories, published originally in various popular magazines and literary journals, portrays a wide world of the East and the West. It has the exotic yet romantic world of the U.S.A. with amorous adventures, whimsical choices and matrimonial manipulations as also the enigmatic and often suffocating arranged marriages in India. It depicts too the world of women-submissive and suppressed, but also courageous and vindictive ones capable of turning the world upside down. The genuine and fake saints are bracketed with gullible and superstitious devotees. If shrewd politicians exploit the simple masses, good Samaritans and earthy goddesses show the right path.