The short stories in the collection "Many in One" seek to build bridges across countries and cultures. A product of globalization, they have literary ancestry in both the eastern and the western hemispheres. While giving the final touches to the preparations for his own prospective death and cremation, Madhav, the common protagonist of the stories, receives a call from his daughter in the United States telling him that she has obtained all the necessary documents for his emigration from India to the US and that he must join the family in the US at the earliest. Down goes the drain all his...

INSIDE INDIA, the first of the twin collections of short stories to reach readers, --the other being OVERLAPPING WORLDS, --opens a passage to India different from the one in the conventional "inside" series. Whereas the series in the category are written mostly to provide information, INSIDE INDIA is a collection of short stories whose main purpose is to delight readers with interesting narratives about life and events. The stories cover a wide range of topics and themes related to India, but they freely wander from time present to time past and the future, and move from one place to another...

OVERLAPPING WORLDS is the second of the twin collections of short stories by the author to reach readers, --the first being INSIDE INDIA. The stories cover a wide range of topics and themes related to contemporary India such as religion, politics, family, environment, and death and taxes, but they freely wander from time present to time past and the future, and move from one place to another within the country and around the world, as if there are no borders. The world of fiction overlaps with the worlds of fantasy, fairytale, myth, and other literary genres. The real, probable, and the...

PASSAGE TO MORE THAN INDIA presents the twin collections of short stories INSIDE INDIA and OVERLAPPING WORLDS by the author in one volume. The stories cover a wide range of topics and themes related to contemporary India such as religion, politics, family, environment, and death and taxes, but they freely wander from time present to time past and the future, and move from one place to another within the country and around the world, as if there are no borders. The world of fiction overlaps with the worlds of fantasy, fairytale, myth, and other literary genres. The real, probable, and the...

TONI MORRISON, NOVELIST is a collection of essays on Morrison's eleven novels from THE BLUEST EYE to GOD HELP THE CHILD. The author of the collection analyses the novels strictly from a literary- critical point of view and deliberately avoids approaching them from any theoretical perspective, as he believes that Morrison's fiction-for that matter, literary work of any writer of merit, -- is too rich and complex to yield to theoretical analysis and that much would be lost by any such study. This position may sound heretical today, but invites accommodation in the present context when Morrison...