'These stories by Appadurai Muttulingam are serious, funny and piercingly honest. Through retelling the stories of the ordinary, common man in his daily struggles for survival, the characters in these stories force us to take a second look at ourselves; they force us to consider ourselves in the shoes of folks who face social, economic and political hardships in their lives.
'Appadurai Muttulingam's writing style reminds one of R.K. Narayan. He uses terse, sinewy sentences and doesn't bother the reader with gratuitous language or details. His mission is to narrate a story, and he does it in a take-it-or-leave-it manner of folk tales, in which logic and superfluous information are sacrificed for the sake of a delightful read and a universal message.'
MOHAMMED NASEEHU ALI
Author of The Prophet of Zongo Street
About the Author
PADMA NARAYANAN is a Chennai-based writer and translator. Her translations of short stories have been included in an anthology brought out by the British Council. Her other translations include two novellas by the Tamil writer La Sa Ra (Katha), Ashes and Wisdom by Indira Parthasarathy (Indian Writing) and Inauspicious Times by Appadurai Muttulingam.
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