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Oh deer! My deer...

https://kitaab.org/2019/08/31/short-story-oh-deer-my-dear/ Mitali Chakravarty    August 31, 2019   2017 best fiction ,  2019 ,  Asian short stories ,  Immigrants ,  immigration ,  short story Short Story:  Oh  Deer!  My Dear… By Farouk Gulsara Malaysia National Day Special Like the Sword of Damocles, his domestic troubles hung over his head. There was nothing much he could do about it. It had gone on too long, too deep. He just had to live with it and move around it. He could not give up everything. There was a nagging heaviness in his temples. He knew things were going to take a nasty turn and it might get worse. He had created some arbitrary goals to improve his life, but this one had crashed it all. But still, life had to continue. As they say in showbiz, the show must go on. He knew it was a bad idea. With all these problems plaguing him, he thought it was inappropriate for him to participate in this ev...

Time to let your mind go asunder!

Kafka in Ayodhya and other stories (2015, 2018) Author: Zafar Anjum Perhaps not many would appreciate the significance of the illustration of the insect to the title of this book. Of course, it is related to Franz Kafka's 1915 original novella 'Metamorphosis' where the protagonist transforms into a beetle-like insect overnight. It is a strange tale with many concealed messages and has been hailed one of the most fabulous fictions of the 20th century. It questions the purpose of our existence and our relationship with the people around us. This potpourri of short stories immerses our thoughts into the daily lives of the characters in their contemporary Asian lives. From a journalist, Herr Kafka, who turns up around the time of the court's announcement of Ayodhya's 'Ram Mandhir- Babri Masjid' legal wrangle to a name-dropping self-proclaimed broke 'writer', there many more chronicles in this book to let your mind to go wild. Another interesti...