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The Masks… RS Krishna Moorthy
The Masks
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Goddess’ Smile… Ketu Viswanatha Reddy
Image Courtesy: Saaranga Magazine That was the lunar month of Kartika. There was a bite in the breeze blowing. The hues on the itinerant cloud-canvas changed by the second. Over the horizon the young cloudlets looked like a mixture of champac and jasmine. While the purple clouds appeared like December flowers (barleria cristata), the red and…
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Granny’s Rupee by Chaganti Tulasi
[It is common for old people to complain of the youngsters at their loss of moral values. Facts speak otherwise. No preacher follows his sermon. Nobody recks his own rede. Double standards in morals… one for others and another for us… is the standard norm. It is the oldies that are corrupt and lead by…
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Her Sacrifice- Chalam
Her Sacrifice Telugu Original: Chalam [Man, includes woman, despite the best possible grooming, schooling, endowment of reasoning, is, and can become, everything and anything from a beast to a buddha, but not any one of them consistently throughout his life. His nobility at times reaches uncharted horizons just as his meanness stoops to unfathomable abysses.…
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The Half-rupee Coin… Karunakumara
[This story was taken from times when the purchase value of a half- rupee coin was quite significant. While the educated and the middle class are more pragmatic and readily compromise with their morals when a true conflict arises, it is the illiterate and poor village folk that often suffer from a moral dilemma. Kandukuri…
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Winds of Change- Bhushanam
[ One should only visit the weekly hats in the agencies of north coastal districts to have a firsthand knowledge of the extent of exploitation that takes place there, even to this day. The ostensible progress publicized in the name of integrating tribal people with the mainstream, in fact, had only alienated them from their land,…
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A Motherly Instinct… K. Ramalakshmi
[We go eloquent when we speak about human values and how inviolable they are for a healthy society. We don’t hesitate a moment to condemn life without values. When it comes to motherly love, it is a paradigm of nobility and sacrifice. And we expect nothing less from any mother. But sadly, we underestimate the…
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Zamindar’s Skull… K. Sabha
Telugu: K. Sabha (1.7.1923- 4.11.1980) [Between a children’s short story requiring ‘suspension of disbelief’, and a biographical narrative that would normally deal with only incidents that had happened in real life, the incidents of a good short story should lie in the realm of probability to possibility, leaning more towards the latter. In this narrow interval…
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The Question… C S Rao
[Ours is not a society that respects the privacy of an individual; more so, if she were a single lady living on her own. A talented, self-reliant woman is not only an enigma but also a challenge to the male chauvinistic society which tries to subdue her with rebuke, rumor, and repression. The…
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A Motherly Virtue… Cha. so.
[There are many short stories of Chaso which were often quoted and well critiqued. But strangely, this story missed the attention of readers and critics alike. (With the exception of Dr. Dwaram Durgaprasada Rao.) Compared with Chalam’s “O Puvvu Poosindi (A Flower Blossomed)” for its lyrical beauty and epical narrative, the current short story…
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