View from Here

';The erudite Kannada scholar and critic D. R. Nagaraj wrote, ';To read fiction is to know the fate of a society through its metaphors. But quite often literatureconsciously takes upon itself the responsibility of exploring the state and fate of this society' This is precisely what the stories in this collection do: theymay speak of past and present, but really it is the futurethat we fear and dre...