Dasuram's Script

by Monalisa Jena, Jena Monalisa (Editor)

Sixteen stories from award-winning contemporary Odia writersA jobless graduate returns home one day and smothers his faultless wife to death; a ten year old girl is sold off by her parents to an eighty year old man; a newlywed woman discovers that her husband was married to a tree before she arrived; a tribal poet creates a script for his dialect while in jail; a young girl falls hopelessly in love with her boyfriend’s father. These are stories of human struggle and of the moral dilemmas people and societies are faced with. Marked by the singular yearning of man to rise above his conditions, they are set in a disturbed landscape both abject in its deprivations and intriguing in its beliefs.

Genres: Fiction

217 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 30, 2013

Reviews

[Soumya Sahu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The short story attempts to showcase Odia literary richness and Odia culture . It succeeds in doing this but I have one complaint against the author. Why do all the short stories have dark and sorrowful endings? Odia literature is full of comic short stories too.

[Kiran · Rating 4 out of 5]

The rustic flavor of hinterlands of Odisha is extremely soothing. The stories carry an old-world charm devoid of materialistic fervor or hedonistic pursuits. Be it the story about a naxal poet or about the "other" woman in a man's life or that story of an Independent woman being courted by a married man , all stories carried an aura of realism , the qualms of a middle-class existence and the dichotomy of thoughts & deeds. The protagonists are powerful yet subtle in their approach. Very few contemporary writings touch your soul & implore you to introspect.This short story collection is a must-have for any reader who wants to visit those guilt free & remorse less days of his/her life.