![]() ![]() One story is set in the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Some descriptions almost seem deliberately designed to disgust - but that too is a human emotion, after all. There are few rather raw descriptions of sex. ![]() There are a scattering of love stories, mostly with unhappy endings. Some are about the very poor and destitute, others about wealthy aristocrats, many about the middle class. Some take place in urban settings, others in distinctly rural areas, apparently untouched by 'civilization'. The first story, for example, talks about a man working in the US, unable to attend his mother's lonely funeral in an Indian old age home. ![]() They deal with a set of human emotions, in a range of backgrounds. There are forty stories in all, each of about 10 pages in length. The book is a collection of short stories that Vairamuthu, the Tamil film lyricist and poet, first published in the weekly 'Kumudum'. ![]()
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