Manoj Das . . . [will] take a place on my shelves beside the stories of Narayan Graham Greene This volume presents two celebrated novels by Manoj Das, one of India s most illustrious authors, who has been writing in English and Oriya for over six decades. In A Tiger at Twilight the erstwhile raja of Samargarh returns to his abandoned palace in Nijanpur, after years of self-exile, with his sick daughter and his supposed half-sister, and immediately assumes the responsibility of killing a man-eating tiger. Assisting him are a few noted men of the valley including Dev the owner and manager of a resort. But as the hunt intensifies Dev realizes that things aren t as they seem: Heera, the raja s sister, has an inexplicable power over the men in the hunting party and a strange connection with the tiger. As the men get closer to killing the beast, bizarre things begin to happen, hinting at the influence of the supernatural. Cyclones is set in Kusumpur, a small coastal village, during the struggle for Independence. The village is devastated by a cyclone and Sandip, the scion of the zamindari family, helps restore it. The war-time colonial government, though, wants to turn the sleepy hamlet into a busy port town. They plan to fill up the river that flows by it, in the process angering all the villagers, including Sandip. But when the contractor for the project is found murdered, Sandip is accused of the crime, forcing him to flee from the authorities. This is the start of a series of adventures that take him from a remote ashram in a forest to the city where communal violence is rife. Cyclones is a powerful novel about the metaphorical storms that gripped the nation during the most turbulent period of its modern history.

Tiger at Twilight and Cyclones

MANOJ DAS

Penguin books.India

Submerged Valley & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Lotus-Press

A significant branch of India's vast literary heritage consists of tales told by mystics through the ages,different from myths and legends.Though taken for granted as a part of the folklore and rarely discussed,their influence on the minds of generations of common people has been only next to that of the epics.Sometimes they hit the nail on the head,sometimes they shock and sometimes they make one laugh at oneself but they invariably enrich one's mind by identifying the complex and intriguing forces-psychological and occult,at work in our lives. This collection,probably the first of it's kind,of a full hundred tales culled from sages through decades of sustained interest by its present author,should prove as revealing as they have proved for centuries past.

tales told by mystics

Sahitya Akademi/New Delhi/India

Aakash - Sanket (Hindi Edition)

Prabaht Prakashan

The Escapist

Prabhat Prakashan Pvt. Ltd.

This is a bunch of stories of eminent writer Prof. manoj Das, falling into an odd category where he has taken advantage of the wide range of freedom and flexibility fantasy as a form allows, but that he has done only in order to present observations on mice and men that are aspects of probability and reality at different psychological and occult planes. Of the eleven stories (the twelfth is almost a novelette), seven are expansions of and development over tales from the Jatakas and the Panchatantra. The narration clearly indicates the point where the original version ended so far as the plot if concerned (even though that part too is retold by the author in his own way in keeping with the totality of the story), and then from where the author builds up or expands the narrative according to his own inspiration.

The Lady Who Died One and a Half Times and Other Fantasies [Aug 12, 2014] Das, Manoj

Short Stories & Anthologies

Purushottam Dev and Padmavati

Amar Chitra Katha Private Limited

SWARNA KALASH (Hindi Edition)

Pratibha Pratishthan

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