TELUGU
Contemporary fiction
AMBIKA ANANTH
SANGADI — An Anthology of Stories: Sreelekha Sahiti; Vishalandhra Publishing House, 4-1-435, Bank Street, Embassy Centre, Hydeabad-500002.
Rs. 80.
THIS COLLECTION has 32 short and moderately long stories resonating with certain commonalities of popular Telugu fiction. They all flow with simplicity and ease - simple in language yet with pathos of the deprived, pleasures of the average man and everyday mundane themes. The storytellers have freely drawn from as varied topics as religious vows, incest, matrimonial interviews and concomitant glitches and so on.
Some stories like "Janthuvu", "Devudu Navvadu" and "Salwar Kameez" stand out with reflective originality and these intellectually and emotionally stimulating ones help the anthology to stand justified. Barring four or five stories that are mediocre, this collection offers a fairly fine contemporary fiction.
"Janthuvu" depicts a morbid kind of incestuous relation a father develops with his daughter.
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