Posted by: gunyucholi March 8, 2008
The H-1B Couple: A not-so-short story
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From Captain Deepak to Sachita's creator, all your characters are so convincing and familiar. You are a writer with multidimensional microscopic vision and the way you zoomed in the character that is  absolutely outstanding.

Life may not be beautiful, there may not be many happy relationships but there are always healthy relationships that keep us going. It always occurs to me that you love to lace your stories with not so optimistic streak which I believe brings the prejudices in the writing, hoina? 

Don’t take it personally but I prefer to call you a crypt author. First wide shots and then the close ups , in most of your stories there is a beautifully set stage – resembling a crypt, then there is the  narrator under the spotlight  surrounded by beautiful glass coffins inside which the characters are resting, lifeless. Slowly and swiftly the narrator guides the most difficult crowd of readers to each of the coffin. Yeah, there is undoubtedly the magic in the narration, but I just find one strong mono-tone in the narrator's voice, the reader in me failed to detect the possible highs and lows. Personally, I want to see an emotional storyteller, and  of course, all your characters out of  their coffins, breathing life. Why don’t you give them more life and enjoy your share of emotion as a storyteller, or this is what you call your signature style? If so then go ahead.

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