About this ebook
A collection of fifteen short stories, Anjie, Pat and India's Poor, covers a multiple range of characters one comes across in day-to-day life. Varied emotions colour the pages with spectacular beauty; a twist at the end of the tales being the icing on the cake. The distinguishing traits of the stories? They are entertaining and captivating - from the first page to the last.
About the author
Mrutyunjay Sarangi is a retired civil servant and former judge of a Central Tribunal. Post retirement his time is divided between editing the monthly eMagazine LiteraryVibes and writing poems and short stories. He has nine collections of Odia short stories to his credit. In 2022 he published two books of his short stories in English - The Jasmine Girl at Haji Ali and A Train to Kolkata. Mrutyunjay has received a few literary awards, notable among them is The Fakir Mohan Senapati Award for Short Stories in Odia from the Utkal Sahitya Samaj in 2018. He lives in Bhubaneswar. Always look forward to reading MS writings. They give fascinating insights into India as well as human behaviour in general. They definitely keep me engaged. Hope more readers can enjoy his refreshing tales. - Daun Jacobsen (Computer Executive, Ardent Follower of Indian Literature and Culture – San Hose, USA) The indelible impact this cluster of stories leaves with the reader induces him to get back to it again and again, if not for anything else, for the sheer feel one gets as the characters come so alive before one’s eyes, with all their passions, emotions, nobility or depravity. The writer must be a master story teller to have such a profound grip over his art. - Prof. R. Chakrabarti (Eminent Social Scientist and Former Vice-Chancellor, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata) Empathy is at the core of these stories. Without taking sides, the author identifies with one of the characters in the madding crowd he sees or imagines around him and goes deep into the character to bring out his (or her) motive. In precise, concrete language, free from cliche, he brings out the complementary part of history without which the other half is sketchy, ….Here is a writer who keeps R K Narayan's torch aflame. - Sree Kumar, (Poet, Writer, Essayist, Critic, Film Maker - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
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