Short Stories from India

"Short Stories depict the life of the middle and lower-middle class Afro-Asian societies with focus on some hitherto  untouched aspects, in the range of my vision. For a man is a man  irrespective of his caste, colour, creed or country: a suffering, a suffering to whoever it affects. Tolerance-testing anti-social activities, diminishing moral values, compartmentalisation of  society, vicious villainy,.....have grieved me like the all other penmen. It is the moral duty of a writer to aspire and work for a better and free environment, with no strings attached. The characters of a work aren’t the writer but a part of him/her. We  can’t disown them. They help in unfoldment of our inner-self in the desired way. It is for the reader to decipher and read  between lines to discern the intended message. He has become too wise to need explaining. Keeping this in mind, I have found solace in simplicity and brevity.

This book is written by S.K.Trivedi (b.Nov.30, 1940), a renowned Indian literateur, a widely travelled, highly qualified, greatly experienced and well-read    writer. His teaching assignments took him to Somalia and Ethiopia, where he took time to make a  tour of Kenya, Uganda and  Tanzania also. This enabled him to write a lot on the African life and experience. He has successfully tried his hand on almost  every genre of literature--poetry, stories, novels, essays, memoirs, current affairs, etc. A staunch Gandhian Mr.Trivedi’s vision  is catholic, cosmopolitan, global and humanitarian. Many research scholars are working for doctoral theses on his life and work."