{"id":5655,"date":"2011-10-02T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:00:59","slug":"the-elephant-and-the-maruti-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2011\/10\/02\/the-elephant-and-the-maruti-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant and the Maruti: Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Radhika Jha<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Radhika Jha is perhaps one of the most unique authors I&#8217;ve ever read, even if I had to judge only from this book. There is a vividness in the prose that I&#8217;ve rarely experienced before. The book consists of 6 stories. &#8216;The Wedding&#8217; gives us a peek into Delhi&#8217;s high society, as portrayed by a wedding that stops just short of bizarre. This would be my least favourite. &#8216;Hope&#8217; uses two characters &#8211; the narrator, who represents a typical middle class migrant to the big city (Delhi) and Shibu Mondal, a roadside beggar with a cruel past, and their experiences, to describe facets of the city&#8217;s relationship with its inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3 characters and their unique relationships with &#8216;Beauty&#8217;. This one is set in Bangalore and features Koshy&#8217;s. &#8216;The Elephant and the Maruti&#8217;, is a chain of events set in motion after an elephant steps on a Maruti in a busy Delhi traffic junction. The story takes us through a cross section of social layers, and seems a hat tip the &#8216;circle of life&#8217; as well as the &#8216;butterfly effect&#8217;.\u00a0&#8216;Sleepers&#8217; is set in the remote village of Mangladi, and the narrator&#8217;s experience with the role of blind faith and religion in individual lives and the community.\u00a0&#8216;The Cook&#8217; is the story of a chef whose family realises that he has lost his skills. The chef feels that his family is plotting against him. What follows is a maze of betrayal and counters, which ends in a neat twist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stories are all a mix of vivid explanations and layered mysteries, often leaving a lot to the reader to imagine, and fill. Worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/affiliateWidget\/simpleBanner?bc=FFFFFF&#038;tc=333333&#038;lc=A52A2A&#038;buy=&#038;affid=INmanublo&#038;id=XOW3FKL82B&#038;type=3&#038;price=yes&#038;border=yes&#038;height=260&#038;width=120\" style=\"width:120px;height:260px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radhika Jha Radhika Jha is perhaps one of the most unique authors I&#8217;ve ever read, even if I had to judge only from this book. There is a vividness in the prose that I&#8217;ve rarely experienced before. The book consists of 6 stories. &#8216;The Wedding&#8217; gives us a peek into Delhi&#8217;s high society, as portrayed <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2011\/10\/02\/the-elephant-and-the-maruti-stories\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007],"tags":[2022,2021],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-radhika-jha","tag-the-elephant-and-the-maruti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14688,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}