Srinivas Kamat

Tiger & Other Tales Srinivas Kamat

Contains a pot-pourri of eclectic short stories related to the Indian ethos and milieu as prevailing in contemporary and changing India with special focus on the tiger, its image and positioning in the psyche of the people who predominantly live in and near its habitat. You will see here Ammi ride a tiger in the wild.... Ajay Singh, a hunter sees an apparition of a Goddess while aiming at a tigress... Mira, an aging tigress abdicating her jungle kingdom. A bus journey gone horribly wrong. Moving on from a romance when younger. And in the shade of the Western Ghats a story of revenge by exploited women. Transition of some of our age old practices. And lastly chromosome wars.