RANDOM EXTRACTS FROM MY DAUGHTER'S DICTIONARY AND SUCH OTHER STORIES

This book is a collection of stories of bygone days; some voicing despair, others clinging to hope amidst humour, dealing with present day's life’s travails, and the callous way his generation's being forcibly propelled into - a strange new India - they can’t relate to, or recognise as theirs any more. Having visited some 90 countries notwithstanding, the writer remains a proud and staunch Indian at heart, like most Indians abroad who secretly dwell in those - Indian memories, - a wrenching by-product of their unique brand of nostalgia. But many middle-aged persons, regardless of nationality, will see themselves, occasionally in his stories; join in, in his lament; and even insist certain tales were so like theirs. For he expresses the middle-aged and middle class Indian’s anguish, while raging he can do little, except write about - the way we were.