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Utopia A Collection of Short Stories

Nilanjana Sanyal

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Description:The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. -Harold GoddardThe historical background of short stories lay in oral story-telling traditions which originally produced epics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told rhythmically, memory devices intended to act for easier recall, rendition and adaptation of the story. The overall arc of the tale would emerge only through the telling of many such sections.Ancient Fables, tales with an explicit "moral," were said to have been invented in the 6th century before Christ by a Greek slave named Aesop. Known as Aesop's Fables, these tales are a favorite with children of all ages.In Europe, the oral story-telling tradition began to develop into written stories in the early 14th century, most notably with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. In the late 17th Century, traditional fairy tales began to be published with one of the most famous collections being by Charles Perrault. Story telling in the United States dates back to Charles Brockden Brown's "Somnambulism" (1805), Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle (1819) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1842). At one point in time, the demand for stories was so high that writers often used the product to pay off their outstanding debts!From then on, there was no looking back. When Life magazine published Ernest Hemingway's long short story (or novella) The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, the issue containing this story sold 5,300,000 copies in only two days.Very often, stories might be used by spiritual and religious leaders worldwide to inspire, enlighten, and educate their followers.It is this spirit of writing to inspire if not educate that compelled me to consider putting up a short collection intended to engage in such important themes as might have consequences for society. Consider the experience of Leah when one day Nazi soldiers arrived in her hometown to take away her parents and ‘little’ Tom for ever. Personally, I was greatly influenced by “Anne Frank’s Diary” while writing this story. Or, when an entire island sunk beneath the ocean. Fact or fiction, one might ask? The truth is, fiction cannot be divorced from reality! Our sea levels will rise as a result of polar ice caps melting a strange paradox of the inequalities that exist in our times leading to global warming and other consequences. Ask me, isn’t Tuvalu sinking? Or, consider the strange anomaly that is discrimination on the basis of color of skin. But was Gandhi or for that matter is Mandela not true “flesh-n-blood” (nee real life) heroes? Or, a disabled father’s true love for his son. Are these not human emotions on paper? Or, the official negligence and often apathy meted out to millions of people throughout the world, including innocent children? The ‘Rain gods’ did take away ‘little’ Arsh Muduli to the heavens, but don’t the ‘Rain gods’ actually betray our farmers or take away thousands of innocent children every year. Consider also the practice of selective sex abortion. Or, innocent girls (or even boys) being lured into dates and then raped or otherwise abused. Consider a situation in which several young girls (and especially in India) get raped by goons inside trains or medical stores while the world simply stares without intervening. I’m sorry I forgot that similar situations are extensively portrayed in our Bollywood films. And Bollywood is all about stardom and Mumbai a place every girl wants to be in with dreams of becoming a heroine. But then, corrupted minds exist everywhere or have I missed the latest ‘Transparency International’ findings?Consider also the horrors of the Rwandan Genocide, in which millions of innocent Tutsis were put to the Machete by the Hutus in 1994. Consider the brave fight put up by the Manager of a hotel in Kigali in an attempt to protect the residents of the hotel from the massacre. Or the brave fight put up by one courageous woman, Gillian Moore against a mighty corporation which had turned a blind eye to the repercussions being caused by the effluents being released by their factories in the small town of Quincy, Illinois located along the banks of the river Mississippi. The aim of this book is not to confuse fact with fiction, indeed which was not something I had in mind when I started writing this collection. But fiction actually cannot be divorced from reality. The main dream behind this project was to highlight that certain inequalities (of race, caste, class, gender and disability) do exist in society and that we as story-tellers (or, writers) have an obligation to fulfill in working to erase these so-called inequalities, otherwis...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Utopia A Collection of Short Stories. 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Pages: 246

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Sanbun Publishers, New Delhi

Release: 2013

ISBN: 9382393137

Description: The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. -Harold GoddardThe historical background of short stories lay in oral story-telling traditions which originally produced epics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told rhythmically, memory devices intended to act for easier recall, rendition and adaptation of the story. The overall arc of the tale would emerge only through the telling of many such sections.Ancient Fables, tales with an explicit "moral," were said to have been invented in the 6th century before Christ by a Greek slave named Aesop. Known as Aesop's Fables, these tales are a favorite with children of all ages.In Europe, the oral story-telling tradition began to develop into written stories in the early 14th century, most notably with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. In the late 17th Century, traditional fairy tales began to be published with one of the most famous collections being by Charles Perrault. Story telling in the United States dates back to Charles Brockden Brown's "Somnambulism" (1805), Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle (1819) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1842). At one point in time, the demand for stories was so high that writers often used the product to pay off their outstanding debts!From then on, there was no looking back. When Life magazine published Ernest Hemingway's long short story (or novella) The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, the issue containing this story sold 5,300,000 copies in only two days.Very often, stories might be used by spiritual and religious leaders worldwide to inspire, enlighten, and educate their followers.It is this spirit of writing to inspire if not educate that compelled me to consider putting up a short collection intended to engage in such important themes as might have consequences for society. Consider the experience of Leah when one day Nazi soldiers arrived in her hometown to take away her parents and ‘little’ Tom for ever. Personally, I was greatly influenced by “Anne Frank’s Diary” while writing this story. Or, when an entire island sunk beneath the ocean. Fact or fiction, one might ask? The truth is, fiction cannot be divorced from reality! Our sea levels will rise as a result of polar ice caps melting a strange paradox of the inequalities that exist in our times leading to global warming and other consequences. Ask me, isn’t Tuvalu sinking? Or, consider the strange anomaly that is discrimination on the basis of color of skin. But was Gandhi or for that matter is Mandela not true “flesh-n-blood” (nee real life) heroes? Or, a disabled father’s true love for his son. Are these not human emotions on paper? Or, the official negligence and often apathy meted out to millions of people throughout the world, including innocent children? The ‘Rain gods’ did take away ‘little’ Arsh Muduli to the heavens, but don’t the ‘Rain gods’ actually betray our farmers or take away thousands of innocent children every year. Consider also the practice of selective sex abortion. Or, innocent girls (or even boys) being lured into dates and then raped or otherwise abused. Consider a situation in which several young girls (and especially in India) get raped by goons inside trains or medical stores while the world simply stares without intervening. I’m sorry I forgot that similar situations are extensively portrayed in our Bollywood films. And Bollywood is all about stardom and Mumbai a place every girl wants to be in with dreams of becoming a heroine. But then, corrupted minds exist everywhere or have I missed the latest ‘Transparency International’ findings?Consider also the horrors of the Rwandan Genocide, in which millions of innocent Tutsis were put to the Machete by the Hutus in 1994. Consider the brave fight put up by the Manager of a hotel in Kigali in an attempt to protect the residents of the hotel from the massacre. Or the brave fight put up by one courageous woman, Gillian Moore against a mighty corporation which had turned a blind eye to the repercussions being caused by the effluents being released by their factories in the small town of Quincy, Illinois located along the banks of the river Mississippi. The aim of this book is not to confuse fact with fiction, indeed which was not something I had in mind when I started writing this collection. But fiction actually cannot be divorced from reality. The main dream behind this project was to highlight that certain inequalities (of race, caste, class, gender and disability) do exist in society and that we as story-tellers (or, writers) have an obligation to fulfill in working to erase these so-called inequalities, otherwis...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Utopia A Collection of Short Stories. 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