Letters for Paul

by Kumar, Anu

• ISBN13: 9781890206420
• ISBN10: 1890206423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-04
• Publisher: Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

Summary

Anu Kumar's prose is very evocative and full of excellent images. She has a great gift for physical description and is indeed a writer to watch. -Pankaj Mishra, author of An End to Suffering:The Buddha in the World The violence that explodes in Aditi's life one sultry afternoon in a town where nothing ever happens, has unexpected and spiralling consequences. Letters for Paul is the story of Aditi's attempts to understand events in her life that seemingly have no answers. Her search for an answer to this is complicated with the other mysteries she is confronted with. Events that occurred long back in the past, others that have no answers and some that people refuse to answer. Her efforts to understand her changing world, to make sense of the violence hidden in everyday monotony, leave Aditi sometimes convinced of her own powerlessness. She persists with her search, however, conjuring up her own events or writing letters that remain unanswered all to establish her own presence. Matters end in disgrace but Aditi does find success of a kind.

Table of Contents

A Bad Beginning	7	(7)
Bad Girls and Naxalites	14	(8)
Wet Paint	22	(14)
Stand-In Appearances	36	(11)
Photos and Their Stories	47	(11)
Temporary Bouts of Madness	58	(12)
Past Permanent	70	(10)
Open Threats, Secret Moves	80	(8)
Buckets and Brickbats	88	(9)
A Second Bad Beginning	97	(14)
Essential Truths	111	(15)
Intrusions	126	(9)
A Cure for Ashanti	135	(14)
Two Different Solutions	149	(7)
What works...	156	(18)
And what doesn't...	174	(15)
An Ordinary Ending	189