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Muchchad Gadh and Other Stories
by Sangita P. Menon Malhan
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AuthorSangita P. Menon Malhan
PublisherVitasta Publishing
SynopsisIn this collection of delectable gris-noir short stories, the women
make a statement. They are sexually liberated and fearless. They
play with guns and knives and axes. They may be slightly broken but
they aren't uninteresting. An amorous khayal singer in old
Delhi—the Begum of Ballimaran—is nonchalant about taking a
vulnerable poet to bed. Sejal, a nubile dacoit is running away from
her lover, Rana, through thick jungles because he seems inclined to
give up thievery. A young convict is trained to become an assassin
under the patronage of her senior—the bald, scarred Bai Sa, and a
car crash survivor, invited to deliver an inspiring lecture at a college,
feels like pushing another speaker off the dais because the latter's
sari is shocking pink. There's also a desert village where
moustaches rule the roost, and a dark, damp world where the
struggle is between glory and fate. Meanwhile, in the hills, through
the mist, you spot a failed actor trying to kick the bucket, an
ambitious manager trying to use telepathy to knock off his bosses,
and a bus parked precariously during a torrential downpour.
Therefore, shadows become hoary tales, and a whisper is the
learning of a lifetime.
