Fireflies In The Dark
(Annie Chandy)
Contemporary Indian fiction has come of age
with writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy and Chitra Bannerjee who have
put Indian fiction on the global map. A modest attempt to scale similar heights
has been made by Bangalore-based publisher and writer, Annie Chandy, whose
collection of short stories, ?Fireflies in the dark? has been received quite
well.
The twenty-three stories that form the
substance of this volume are varied in the range of emotion that is displayed.
A consummate storyteller, Annie Chandy weaves subtlety of emotion into some of
the stories, while others are extremely in-your-face. The stories that depict
communal rage leave you distinctly uncomfortable, yet there is the clear ring
of truth in them.
Powerful and evocative are the words that
came into my mind as I read each of the stories. The temptation to leave out
any distasteful story was missing, although a couple of them were not much to
my liking. Let me not name them, and prejudice any readers against it. I cannot
name any favourites too, as there are quite a few that I like, for reasons I?m
not so sure myself!
In short, ?Fireflies in the dark? is a
compilation that should be read by anyone trying to understand or even experience
contemporary Indian fiction, through the eyes of a sensible, intelligent
writer, who lives right here in India, and not a hip NRI who writes about only
what he/she wants to see.
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