AppropriatePuishment

by L. Prakash

There is no strict definition for crime because the same act viewed as a crime in one era, might be hailed as a great innovation in another. The same act in different situations changes the definition of crime as well; for if murder is foul, killing the enemy in the battlefield is valor! When crime itself defied definition, how can you expect punishment to be any more logical or rational? Huxa is a young man from far future, whose crime is grave enough by the standards of his society, which merits a strict punishment indeed. Stripped of comforts, technology, weapons, survival tools, money and even clothes, Huxa is dumped into the South Indian city of Chennai, in the year 2009. His memories are however left intact, so that he could wallow in miseries and soak in pain in his new surroundings, in an alien time, totally strange and hostile to him! However, Huxa was made of sterner stuff; for was he not an Alpha prime male? Appropriate Punishment is a clever story told in his inimitable style by India’s master Storyteller Dr. L.Prakash.

259 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2012