English translation of selected short stories by Souribandhu Kar
Translator: Supriya Kar
The stories in this collection are linked by a preoccupation with the frailty of human nature. They depict the life of ordinary people who are caught in the prosaic struggle for existence. Focusing on ordinary situations in the lives of these people, they reveal envy, hypocrisy, selfishness and vanity. They depict the petty limitations, the dissimulations and pretensions inherent at different levels of society. The poor characters whose existences are governed by a desperation to keep up appearances people the stories.
Souribandhu Kar was born in 1948. He has published five collections of short stories, six biographies and five essay collections. He is a well-known columnist. At present, he is the General Secretary, All India Trade Union Congress, Orissa.
Supriya Kar teaches English at the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar.
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