In “Flight 640 is delayed…, ” – a story with strong autobiographical overtones – two people, Aparna and Varun, meet in an airport lounge. However, can humanity transcend the barriers created due to war or is it only momentary? Human traits emerge around a tree that is a symbol of life in a desert. Both set of soldiers, facing a similar predicament on the cold desert night.
The patrol unexpectedly bumps into the enemy “a hair’s breadth on his sten’s trigger, away from him.” The fears of the young officer and his reactions is a story of both war and humanity. ‘The Patrol’ exposes the reader to Second Lieutenant Anil Palta leading his first patrol across no man’s land, “carefully placing his feet on the boot marks” of a battle-hardened soldier as they crossed a minefield.
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As Leonard Cohen stated “there’s a crack, a crack in everything and that’s where the light comes in.” The light does come in, but what is it that comes with the darkness? Is the ‘Completed Canvas’ really hers? She then goes to a remote resort in the Garhwal Himalayas and there meets an old lover who helps her to produce her masterpiece.
“The paint did not flow freely and the brushes no longer moved on their own accord”. ‘The Completed Canvas’ tells the story of Nayantara, a successful artist who is now going through a creative drought. The creative impulse forms the backdrop for quite a few of the stories. The issue is how society deals with “an exhilarating feeling of freedom in an eighteen year old.” Is it “a perfected well-ordered society” designed to protect its citizens or preserve itself and what is the illness that is being incinerated? Only now the setting is akin to what the world has witnessed while confronting a pandemic. The’ Cloistered City’ reminds one of George Orwell describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices. What are the feelings that go through the mind of an expectant mother dealt such a cruel hand and what are her means of getting her revenge? The horrors of insurgency and the collateral damage it creates on the local population exposes the reader to tragedies of their lives. In the rugged and inhospitable terrain near the Line of Control, a terrorist rapes a young school teacher who is now carrying his child. In ‘The Well’, the author takes us deep into the insurgency hit Kashmir. The son who arrives from his unit in the valley spends the night holding the old man’s hand playing a masquerade that unfolds only later. The father – a proud old Army officer waits for his son, an officer in his own battalion. ‘Night Vigil’ is a sensitive story based on a true incident, a dying father and a son keeping vigil over him. And the ending hits like a hammer stroke. The interplay of these two main characters and how they pursue their own desires with the shadow of death looming over them, ends in both triumph and loss. The title story, ‘The Final Draft’ is a powerful story of a dying writer who is focused on producing his best work, while battling cancer with the support of his wife. Business travel is back at hotels as virus threat abatesĮach of the stories have different themes.
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