Twenty-One Short Stories

About the Book

Twenty-one Short Stories´ by Prabhakar is a work of fiction. Each story is a poetic experience, aesthetic as well as elevating. The story connotes as a whole without any annotation. The moral and aesthetic coalesce. The stories are a portrayal of simple characters that come and go as silently as the day or the night. The stories approximate to an Indian macrocosm of vision and variety without any prejudice to their universal extent and intent. A pervasive sense of irony is ever there to chasten any romantic pigmentation. The book serves a sumptuous cocktail of romance and symbolism, humour and irony, realism and religion with a sympathetic human concern. It betrays a simple soul´s predicament and pride. Going through the book the reader should hear the echoes of the past, the present and the future of humanity. A journey from ´The Champion´ to ´The Mahakumbha´ is a pilgrimage through India.

About the Author

The author, Prabhakar, is an established surgeon at Sasaram, about a hundred kilometres east of the holy city of Varanasi in India. Born on the 15th of January, 1956 in a traditional Hindu family at the village, Tendua, midway between Bodh Gaya, the place where the Budha attained the highest wisdom and Sarnath, where he delivered his maiden sermon of Budhism, the author grew into a respecter of ‘Non-violence and universal brotherhood.’ He completed his formal education and training in surgery at the Banaras Hindu University way back in 1983. He has since set up his own nursing home to care for the ailing humanity. If his efficiency as a doctor bespeaks his scientific temper, his story of literary success in the form of ‘Twenty-one Short Stories’ betrays his literary bent to a maximum advantage. The author is an ardent lover of nature, a strict vegetarian and an avowed pacifist.