"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
A JOY RIDE!
The stories in the two volumes are packed with a wide variety of plots and a charming range of characters. They combine intriguing content with witty narration. There is the house maid with a pair of exquisite gold anklets; a policeman who befriends a house servant accused of a petty crime; the nineteenth century bungalow with a spirit hidden in its walls; the tigress falling in love with a handsome man; the mother of a man held hostage who refuses to join the prayer meeting; learning a thing or two from the wisdom in a tribal community; a grandfather who discovers another form of intelligence in a little boy not revealed before others; a bond between a teen-aged girl and the family gardener, coming to terms with cancer; a village boy migrating to the city in the retail boom; elders falling in love and seeking rules of the game; death rituals turning tragically funny; telepathic bonds in identical twins; a spooky visit to a police station; the story of the last cheetah in India …. And that is just a sampler! The stories are kept short and sweet, never imposing, always entertaining.
Vijay Padaki
Vijay Padaki is a Theatre Educator based in Bangalore. He has worn two caps all his life with equal facility. He has been active in the theatre for over sixty years. He has been a management professional for over forty-five years.
Vijay joined Bangalore Little Theatre in 1960, the year of its inception, and later served the company in many capacities – as actor, director, trainer, writer, designer and administrator. In 2008, Bangalore Little Theatre Foundation was restructured as a Public Charitable Trust. It was done with the purpose of reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to social development goals beyond performance. The Trust requested Vijay to provide the leadership to a newly-created Academy of Theatre Arts in its formative years.
Vijay has been responsible for institutionalizing several activities of BLT, such as the annual summer workshop for newcomers to the theatre (SPOT), from which has emerged a large number of the theatre personalities in Bangalore, the History of Ideas programme of biographical plays, the Courtyard Theatre programme, and the Children’s Theatre programme, which includes the annual flagship children’s play as a partnership production to support a charity. Vijay conceived and initiated programmes for training trainers, training Directors and promoting new writing for the stage. He has forged several international partnerships with BLT over the years. The Ministry of Culture invited Vijay to initiate a programme of Arts and Heritage Management in India.
