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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalSaeed was born and brought up in Mumbai and was educated at St. Mary’s High School and St. Xavier’s College and later, at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris. He has had a long and eventful working career in India, the UK, and France spanning marketing, advertising, airline, and travel industries. Today he works part-time as an independent consultant and devotes his spare time to writing. Although Saeed has been writing on and off ever since his school and college days (he was editor of his school newspaper and contributed regularly to his college magazine); his actual journey as a wriRead More...
Saeed was born and brought up in Mumbai and was educated at St. Mary’s High School and St. Xavier’s College and later, at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris. He has had a long and eventful working career in India, the UK, and France spanning marketing, advertising, airline, and travel industries. Today he works part-time as an independent consultant and devotes his spare time to writing.
Although Saeed has been writing on and off ever since his school and college days (he was editor of his school newspaper and contributed regularly to his college magazine); his actual journey as a writer started with the publication of his first book "Twin Tales from Kutcch" which was followed by several short stories which have been published in The Deccan Herald, The Beacon Webzine, Bengaluru Review, The Blue Lotus Magazine, Borderless Journal, and Muse India. His other writings include newspaper articles, some travel writing, several book reviews, and two essays for the Museum of Material Memory.
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The Missing Tile and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and Saeed Ibrahim’s second book after the widely acclaimed family saga, Twin Tales from Kutcch. The fifteen stories in this collection are slice-of-life, character-based portraits reflecting on various aspects of human behaviour. Drawing us into the lives of ordinary people, their cares and concerns and their very human foibles and failings, these people-centric stories are sur
The Missing Tile and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and Saeed Ibrahim’s second book after the widely acclaimed family saga, Twin Tales from Kutcch. The fifteen stories in this collection are slice-of-life, character-based portraits reflecting on various aspects of human behaviour. Drawing us into the lives of ordinary people, their cares and concerns and their very human foibles and failings, these people-centric stories are sure to resonate with a large spectrum of readers, both young and old alike. Although the stories are set in India, the underlying themes are universal in their relevance.
Some are light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek pieces on the quirks and idiosyncrasies in people’s behaviour, whilst others offer surprising insights into human nature’s compassionate and humane side. The tenor in the funny stories is entertaining and in the more serious ones connected with socially relevant issues; inspiring and thought-provoking. A notable feature is that the various stories in the collection celebrate India’s diversity, pluralism, and composite culture, which regrettably have been threatened in recent times.
Danesh Bharucha’s imaginative sketches bring to life the characters in the stories and are skillfully adapted to suit the ambience and mood of these evocative tales.
Twin Tales from Kutcch is a period fiction with a strong ethnic flavour set in the colonial era in India. It is the poignant story of two remarkable women, orphaned at a tender age by the tragic loss of both parents. Had they not been separated by a large age gap, they may well have been twins, so uncanny are the parallels in their young lives. Yet the two are separated by the force of circumstances and they grapple with their loss each in their own
Twin Tales from Kutcch is a period fiction with a strong ethnic flavour set in the colonial era in India. It is the poignant story of two remarkable women, orphaned at a tender age by the tragic loss of both parents. Had they not been separated by a large age gap, they may well have been twins, so uncanny are the parallels in their young lives. Yet the two are separated by the force of circumstances and they grapple with their loss each in their own way as their lives play out side-by-side, unknown to each other. The new century dawns and sweeping changes take place in their personal lives as well as on the national stage with the steady march towards independence. Will their paths cross again?
Through a compelling and immersive narrative the book offers a fine blend of nostalgia, historical detail, ethnic traditions and family lore and at the same time touching on subjects such as the status of women, communal co-existence and the plurality of religious traditions and cultures, issues so relevant even today.
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