Pahar Dopahar Thumri

P, J and K are caught in a web of love, lust and need through which Paro attains a deeper understandingof the man–woman relationship. A writer gets an anonymous phone call from a woman named Rain every night. Bradley Hudson, an Anglo-Indian railways employee, elopes with Munni Begum. However, true understanding of love dawns on him when Munni Begum;s attendant, Longlatti, tends to him devoutly in his twilight years. As Joel attends to his comatose father Rafael Tigga, Rafael;s entire life unfolds on a canvas of penury in a tribal landscape rife with conversion to Christianity as the people;s sole redemption.An astounding collection of stories, Pahar Dopahar Thumri is an exploration of the human psyche against the backdrop of modern life, language and sensibilities.