Little Darlings at Church
It focuses on the discriminatory practices at church, where even children are not treated equally. Children with no background are made to sit at the back bench.
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Fiction
Not For Sale
It depicts Neelu's struggles as an abused wife against her father-in-law and husband, her fights for her rights as an individual.
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A Right Disabled
Bhanu is a mentally challenged boy. He gives company to a boy of a working mother. She is planning to take the boy to a Rehabilitation centre. But, Bhanu suddenly leaves his job at his father's order causing much pain to the family.
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The Successors
he story is based on the struggle of indigenous people for their rights to jal jameen and jangal, led by Rudrani Devi and later by a young couple, Timir and Shampa.
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Ramdeen, the Apprentice
Ramdeen spent several months at the garage learning the ins and outs of a motor mechanic. He quickly acquired the basics of repairing a car, but no money ever came. As the days passed, he was forced to collect discarded beer bottles from the drains. He sold these to the wholesaler, giving him a little money. He did not leave his job but hoped one day, one Friday, the owner would hand him a brown envelope with a few dollars.
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A Sabjiwali
Masi called me, and asked for coming another day to hear the story of her son, aged sixteen only. The boy asked Rs. 30 from her, and she refused, and the boy killed himself by consuming a bottle of pesticides, which she kept hidden in a corner of the room wrapped with paper. And today was the twentieth day of her boy’s death!
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A Shirtless Man at a Graveyard
Then I saw the shirtless man at a far northern end of the graveyard. He was murmuring and looked sheepish. He collected a fistful of wet leaves and slowly spread them over a sunken grave covered with weeds and twigs. Now he was brushing his eyes, his head; now he was smiling comically.
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Mustafijur
Yesterday I went to Galakata and met there Mustafijur, a graduate shopkeeper of the village. I took no interest in him at first. He is an ordinary college pass out jobless youth like thousands of others I know and find…