If you love animals, these are the stories for you. What is amazing how that old charm of story telling is revived. In the present times, when the art of story telling is becoming increasingly intricate and complex resulting in stressful reading, these stories are like breath of fresh breeze. After reading one or two stories you decide to read the next and others at bed time before going off to sleep with ambiance of the stories floating in your dreams. Relationship between humans and animals has been portrayed perceptively bringing out delicate and sensitive human-animal interface. In the rural locale, village superstition, human passion, the narrator's intimacy with animals (the author is vetinary surgeon by profession), smack of village slang are woven with effortless craft of story narration. The result is result is a brilliant creation that stays with you for many days like lingering taste of village lassi. The book is a must read. Dr. Deepak Thakur Principal Govt. College Nalagarh HP
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If you love animals, these are the stories for you. What is amazing how that old charm of story telling is revived. In the present times, when the art of story telling is becoming increasingly intricate and complex resulting in stressful reading, these stories are like breath of fresh breeze. After reading one or two stories you decide to read the next and others at bed time before going off to sleep with ambiance of the stories floating in your dreams.
Relationship between humans and animals has been portrayed perceptively bringing out delicate and sensitive human-animal interface. In the rural locale, village superstition, human passion, the narrator's intimacy with animals (the author is vetinary surgeon by profession), smack of village slang are woven with effortless craft of story narration. The result is result is a brilliant creation that stays with you for many days like lingering taste of village lassi.
The book is a must read.
Dr. Deepak Thakur
Principal
Govt. College Nalagarh HP