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Crows and Other Stories is a collection of intimate portraits of life in Indian Villages and small towns around mid-twentieth century, before such life was fundamentally changed by modernity. Children grow up and become teenagers and then adults, constantly making mischief and testing limits, and yet their activities are at heart innocuous, not really calling into question the established order. The stories present interactions between actors in the dramas played out in villages and towns, at a time of greater innocence and within a space in which transgression is both possible at times even encouraged and yet also contained, a space of play and of interplay. Banter, games, flirting, name-calling; these form the veritable substance of the stories and are given more importance than events or actions.
ISBN - 9788129113276
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Pages : 245
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