A Red-necked Green Bird
Ambai, CS Lakshmi, GJV Prasad (translation)There is the woman who reinvents the notion of love in a unique way that amalgamates technology & spirituality through the internet; a man full of love who can sing Bulleh Shah & the woman who has lost her all in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots; the woman in the title story who stands by her deaf daughter but understands why her husband must leave the home they have built with love all these years; the man who finds out what it is to be a woman after a dip in the pond...
These short stories are shorn of sentimentality but have a deep understanding of what it means to live, to love & to die. CS Lakshmi, writing under the pseudonym Ambai, has been a significant voice in Indian literature for the past four decades. A Red-necked Green Bird is the writer’s seventh collection of short stories.