The lamp lighter : and other short stories / Umesh Mathur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathur, Umesh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urdu fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : YS Books International, [2014]

Summary:

The author of a story book has the compulsions of dealing with the vagaries provided by life and the dichotomy that is life. The stories of the book are in a way reflections of life itself. Each story therefore is cast with different mould, as the genre remains the same the take off and landing is on perpetual stagger. The gripping point of each story in the book comes from its uniqueness, the unparrelleled themes, the changing facades, and unblinking heroics of the combatants in each story. An angler casts his net in familiar waters; the story writer does not have that luxury. The drama could start as a costume one and end up in a slow tempered modern day love theme. The seven colours of rainbow, the seven Ras of Indian stagecraft, the seven oceans come vibrantly in to our focus. The reader says, "Write what you like, will read what I like." The question majorly worrying the author to bridge the gap betwen the two likes and their lies the difference between the Gold and the Bronze medals, the wayword and the cutting edge of success.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgement

Contents

1. The Lamplighter

2. Soul Religion

3. It had to Happen!

4. Love

5. Soul of Gold

6. A Parallel Life

7. Advantage Sam

8. How's That?

9. Benefactor Who?

10. Coincidence or Fate?

11. Revisiting Life

12. Retributive Justice

13. Amnesia or Hypnotism?

14. Does Fate Decide?

15. Advantage Gained

16. Manishree

17. Heart Change?

18. Jayat the Artist

19. Some Planning

20. Love has to do with it

21. Reel or Real?

22. Money or Life?

23. Soul Connection

24. Way of Life

25. What is Wrong Naradji?

26. The Foursome

27. A Tale Flawed

28. The Dilemma

29. Deceptions?

30. Weep Sir Weep

31. Serves Right

32. Help Line

33. Over and Above All

34. Gift of Life

35. The Verdict

36. Who is He?

37. Ways of Providence

38. Wonders of Love

39. Love Conquers All

40. From Up Above

41. Sacrifice

42. Poetic Justice

43. Our Worthy Planet

44. Common Rare Happening

45. Bearable Tale

46. Emancipation

47. Who is She?.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

93-83793-70-8

OCLC:

1492909648