Fiction

At the time when India became independent, eighty percent of its population resided in its rural areas, but at the moment rural population was forced to make an exodus and rushed to cities and now the rural population have only come down to little more than around sixty percent. Two important changes had taken place to such exodus in urban society .

Firstly they brought in all the rural legacies, perceptions, behavior and thinking to the society and acted accordingly in cities, because it was the country of all without any exception; and, secondly they dominated in forcing their will by hook or crook. The present fictional story tries to portray the changes that had taken place. On a priority they tried everything to convert themselves to Western ways, which they thought to be urban, but most of them neither remained purely rural folk, nor became a Westerner, except with the costume drama. One most important change that had taken place was common adoption of corrupt practices and abandoning the values arising out of honesty. Now the society has lost the concepts of difference between ‘civilized’ and ‘uncivilized’.

Literary historical fiction. The story relating to spirit of a woman, who is born time & again in different time and geographical zones in different societies through rebirths. The lax spirit acted in the same manner every time she was born. In every episode characters would also be found who happen to be antithesis of the promiscuous heroine.

The first episode starts with the anthropological antiquity, when humans lived in groups and also when language was not evolved. They dreaded their leader, the heroine and called her ‘Shuh’.

In the second birth the spirit was born in household of a priest in Egypt and trained by her father in religious rituals and beliefs, but after attaining puberty she was forced to return to her originals by compulsions of her ‘Physis’. After her death she was taken to be a goddess and the town was named after her—Nekheb—ruins still exist.

In the third book she takes birth in Sparta, but due to her own doings and compulsions of fate she was called ‘Helen of troy’. Since homer many writers had used the story, but my pen has tried to give it a new dimension.