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Drizzle of Yesteryears by M.K.Ajay
Who belongs to a village?
Do the lives of those ‘in exile’ get counted in its collective
consciousness and identity?
What does being ‘at home’ mean for an eccentric in a
traditional society?
Where does one locate oneself after migration?
This collection of seventeen short stories, arranged in two
sections — ‘At Home’ and ‘In Exile’ — examines
belongingness, delightfully eccentric behaviour,
displacement, everyday surprises and longing to return to
one’s roots.
Stories in the section ‘At Home’ are evocative, capturing
moods and events in Pambunkavu, a fictional twenty-first
century village set in the Malabar region of Kerala.
'In Exile’ traces the lives of its people in distant lands — cities
such as Mumbai, Delhi and Vienna or the surreal
landscapes of a circus tent in Texas — as they cope with
migration and foreign cultures.
Do the lives of those ‘in exile’ get counted in its collective
consciousness and identity?
What does being ‘at home’ mean for an eccentric in a
traditional society?
Where does one locate oneself after migration?
This collection of seventeen short stories, arranged in two
sections — ‘At Home’ and ‘In Exile’ — examines
belongingness, delightfully eccentric behaviour,
displacement, everyday surprises and longing to return to
one’s roots.
Stories in the section ‘At Home’ are evocative, capturing
moods and events in Pambunkavu, a fictional twenty-first
century village set in the Malabar region of Kerala.
'In Exile’ traces the lives of its people in distant lands — cities
such as Mumbai, Delhi and Vienna or the surreal
landscapes of a circus tent in Texas — as they cope with
migration and foreign cultures.
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