A clear blue sky: Stories and Poems on Conflict and Hope - Softcover

Murthy; Narayana N.R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143331418 ISBN 13: 9780143331414

Publisher: Penguin India, 2010

Synopsis

Why is the world getting increasingly fragmented? Is there a way for us to understand different viewpoints better? In this collection, writers from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan - Gulzar, Elmo Jayawardena, Manjula Padmanabhan, Poile Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Subhadra Sen Gupta and others - write about various kinds of conflict in our society and history. Some stories are dark, others full of light and hope, and some outright funny as they portray mindless bigots for what they are. When a church burns in Bangalore, the altar cloth ends up in the hands of Mubina, whose grandmother can clean and repair it like no one else; years after the Partition tore a friendship apart, two people try to find the happiness that was once within their reach; and while chasing away courting couples from the Delhi Ridge, a young thug learns a lesson about what really makes Indian 'culture'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin India
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143331418
• ISBN 13: 9780143331414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120