Bound by Life: Short Stories from India, by Arpita Pramanick
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Bound by Life: Short Stories from India, by Arpita Pramanick
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Bound by Life is the first book by Arpita Pramanick. It contains ten short stories. The title story is epistolary. An old man writes a letter to his son before leaving for an old age home. Set in the backdrop of the modern nuclear family, the story contains references to the immigrant experiences of those who came to India from the then East-Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) to escape the wrath of the communal riots post-Indian independence. One of the stories, I am Mala, has been previously published on the eFiction magazine. I am Mala is the tragic tale of a young woman who becomes the victim of the dogmatic caste system. The protagonist of The Silent Victim, Deepa, has traumatic past. She just started college and is struggling badly with androphobia. Will she be able overcome her past and lead a normal life? Arpita delves into the fabric of Indian life - its ethics, values, customs and superstitions. Her characters belong to different walks of life. From tea-vendors on the pavements of Salt Lake, a leading IT hub in West Bengal (Manorama Tea Stall) to the young village boy performing in a circus in a city (The Last Show) – everyone finds a place in Bound by Life. The stories are simple tales of day-to-day lives of the common man. It is this simplicity that adds beauty to this collection.
Bound by Life: Short Stories from India, by Arpita Pramanick- Amazon Sales Rank: #205631 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-20
- Released on: 2015-06-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Author brings off the hardest of all things as a story teller to communicate the extraordinary ordinariness of common happiness By Shreedeep Gangopadhyay Through Bound By Life, the author brings off the hardest of all things for a story teller to communicate the extraordinary ordinariness of most common happiness of the common people.Being the recipient of advanced reader copy of Bound By Life-an anthology of short stories by Arpita Pramanick, I’ve just finished off this book in one shot. As a beta-reader, I have framed some opinions about the aforesaid book which is, nonetheless absolute personal.Writing short story is not something that is come-at-able by dint of only the assimilation of plots, idea and the characters. What it needs most is weaving the story around some simple things in a lucid manner that is very much soothing to the reader with a conflict of some kind intelligently drafted in the tale. Also the very first sentence of the tale should grip the reader and carry him/her forward to reach something stunning but unanticipated fact at the conclusion. Salman Rushdie refers to Sadat Hasan Manto as the “undisputed master of the Indian short story”, because of these reasons. And I daresay this newbie authoress Arpita Pramanick has lived up to those expectations by nailing down a spot in the writing world. Author's voice is bright and new which can clearly hook the reader into reading more and more with her thought-provoking, yet practical, insights.In this book, the author tackled certain very simple human dramas which touch without being melodramatic. As per my knowledge, this is the strength of author and not an easy task in our current phase of “packaging”, “clever repartee”, “melodrama” and “sensation”. That the author chose to be simple, risking even being old-fashioned, makes Bound By Life unique collecting of short stories. With some of the stories inspired from her own hard-won experience, nevertheless, the author must have done a wheelbarrow-full of research delving into the fabric of Indian life, its ethics, values, customs and superstitions and exploring it from a variety of angles. In a nutshell, through Bound By Life, the author brings off the hardiest of all things for a story teller to communicate the extraordinary ordinariness of most common happiness of the common people.The first story, The Silent Victim unfolds the story of a girl struggling from Androphobia (A morbid fear of men) and how she'd shed this to return to her life again. I personally feel that this is a contemporary story where the author has beautifully crafted the much required conflict between right and wrong. It’s really an awe-inspiring attempt of overcoming this unconventional fear over male. It has some very deep but subtle feelings presented in a deft manner which are being positioned in proper places. Heart touching story undoubtedly.The best of the lot is the title story, ‘Bound By Life’ which is an epistolary tale. Specially the approached that has been adopted to tell a tale can indeed attract the witty reader. Very mature and well-written story. After leafing the very first page, a great line slaked my thirst: “Well, today I start my Sannyasa. No, not in the mountainous terrains of the great Himalayas. I am too frail for that.” All of a sudden my eyes got welled with tears going through the heart touching description of an old father’s pain and humiliation that he faced in the modern nuclear family before he would move into his new address-an old age home Sacred Head. The author essays the anguish and grief of a person after emigrating from East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) to India being a refugee at the time of infamous communal riot in 1946-47 that certainly made many families homeless. This story makes us think to face a new question- what lies at the end of our road? This story is beyond criticism and I do not have any critical view in this regard.Then we have 'The Vaastu Snake' – beautifully woven story depicted so beautifully with a twist. A prime example of how sheer brilliance of adjusting the right amount of ingredients in a short story is truly needed to create an impact among the readers.I have nothing to add about the story ‘I am Mala’ as it has already been shortlisted in eFIction magazine. It is the typical tragic tale of a young woman who becomes the victim of the dogmatic caste system.‘The Girl with the White Patches’ starts with a very weird incident of a teenage girl who, one fine morning, gets scared of seeing sporadic while patches spread all over her arms and throat. Each paragraph of this tale essays poignantly the different aspects of a meek girl from a small town having been sickened mentally for carrying such a of skin disorder and the fear of being stigmatized for a long time straddling from the adolescent age before she underwent a surgery to get rid of such a curse.Elusive is a good story. However the concept of the story is most widely used so from the reader’s point of view, we expect something uniquely different veering of the story into a new dimension. The expectation level has been fulfilled at the beginning and the end of the story but it has somehow gone astray in the middle. Most of it is overshadowed under the trap of love triangle circuit. When the responsibility of removing the boredom of reader lays upon the shoulder of author then I must say that Elusive has a lot of stuff, you just need to use them perfectly. There is no doubt about the quality of the cook or cooking. Just in someplace, it seems the amount of salt or sugar is less than or more than the actual. The last episode is full of unexpected events and innovative too. It keeps playing deep inside my mind long time after I have set it apart. But suddenly a phone call rakes up a new character (Aritro) which takes the story a sharp turn! Good grief, if you could use this change a little before, then the last part could have been more relevant.The rest stories are equally edifying. The stories are so deftly written with incredible styles that will keep reverberating in me long time after I have kept those aside. It’s just the first foray of a young aspirant author which, I believe is the harbinger of more mind-bending stories to come in near future. I guess this means we will be seeing more of this author’s work in the electronic and of-course print media too from now on. If there is any justice, the success of this first book will keep this young author going well beyond the second, and third. My best best wishes for the grand success of this book in advance.
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