Indian scenario exposes a vast unfamiliar lifestyle before non-Indian readers. This is imbibed from a mixed culture, different languages, strange mannerisms and food habits, foreign Gods, local festivals, superstitions and advanced technologies. India has become a land of puzzles to outsiders. Yet, this is something worthwhile to look at, says the author through her stories. Each story in "Costume Of the Dead and Other Stories" is a memoir to a simple person she met with in the distant past or in the recent present. The characters drawn straight from life have outgrown in size and shape as...
Indian scenario exposes a vast unfamiliar lifestyle before non-Indian readers. This is imbibed from a mixed culture, different languages, strange m...