Madhurantakam Rajaram Stories
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAI154 |
| Author: | Madhurantakam Rajaram |
| Publisher: | Sahitya Akademi, Delhi |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2007 |
| ISBN: | 9788126025343 |
| Pages: | 504 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 700 gm |
Book Description
About the Book
Madhurantakam Rajaram Stories is a collection of forty stories which intellectually delineates the various aspects of the middle class life. Human warmth here, with subtle imagination, deep sympathy and broadest kind of weltanscchaung , encapsulates the intricate aspects of life and enables readers understand how ordinariness of existence has extraordinary strength to sustain the desire to live.
About the Author
Madhurantakam Rajaram (1930-2000) had thirteen collections of short stories, three novels, five plays, four dance dramas, two collections of lyrics to his credit. He also translated Akhilan and Jayakantan from Tamil into Telugu. Rajaram was actively associated with various literary organizations and won several awards like Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi award, T. Gopichand award, K. Srinivas award, Tamil University award and honorary D.Litt. from S.K. University, Anantapur. Madhurantakam Rajaram Kathalu brought to him the Sahitya Akademi award in 1993.
D. Ranga Rao has actively been involved in teaching English since 1953 and worked on various prestigious positions. He has been translating from Telugu into English and vice versa.
The Pearl Palanquin, Light And Shade, Kausalya, Reed Bushes, Living together, Three Generations, Thorns of Life, Mandadi Kathalu are among his major publications in translation The Pearl Palanquin brought to him the first prize for best translation by Vishwa Sahiti Samithi, Hyderabad.
Contents
| l. | The Circus Tent | 15 |
| 2 | The Triumph of Man | 34 |
| 3 | The Undependable Man | 45 |
| 4 | Broken Vow | 56 |
| 5 | Bitter Truth | 68 |
| 6 | Livelihood | 83 |
| 7 | Three Mothers-in-law | 95 |
| 8 | Double Standards | 104 |
| 9 | Narasaiah the Debtor | 114 |
| 10 | Trisanku's Heaven | 127 |
| 11 | Hide and Seek | 134 |
| 12 | Rain Coat | 138 |
| 13 | Forest Justice | 147 |
| 14 | Whither Bound? | 156 |
| 15 | Journey by Train | 166 |
| 16 | Kites and Glass Lamps | 173 |
| 17 | Desert Koel | 187 |
| 18 | Brundavanam | 208 |
| 19 | Rama Rao's Four Worlds | 223 |
| 20 | The Farce of Life | 232 |
| 21 | The Man in Want of Time | 250 |
| 22 | The Boon | 268 |
| 23 | SpotLight | 278 |
| 24 | Amba Paluku ... | 292 |
| 25 | Doors and Locks | 303 |
| 26 | Step-children | 314 |
| 27 | Group Photo | 324 |
| 28 | The Dumb Deity | 331 |
| 29 | City Uncle | 350 |
| 39 | The Entertainment Show | 368 |
| 40 | The Careful Man | 375 |
| 4l. | The Truth About Truths | 386 |
| 42 | The Institution | 397 |
| 43 | Living Incognito | 418 |
| 44 | Emergency | 426 |
| 45 | Trump Card | 436 |
| 46 | Freedom from Imprisonment | 456 |
| 47 | The Freshes | 0 |
| 48 | The Place of Belonging | 481 |
| 49 | Poverty in Affluence | 494 |
