num_pages: 135
description: Modern India and its people spilling over into contemporary life in the USA and jostled between the pull of both cultures form the backdrop of these remarkable stories. They range from the absolute comedy and hypocrisy that underlies some types of human interaction to the poignant ones on redemption born out of the crucibles of pain and suffering. In one story is Muruga, an illiterate billboard painter, with a lascivious eye on his billboard creation, absolutely at odds with the legion of shameless gawkers at his half-clad sultry siren. In another is Tara, drowning in abject grief after the death of her newborn and trying to find solace in her baby's gravesite. And then there is the irrepressible Naresh, whose love for Pushpa harks back to a not-so-innocent time of lurid teenage fantasy and all the delicate implications therein that make it hard for him to confess his love to her. Taken together, these stories shape a distinct palette of cultural vignettes that inform the reader of the Indo-American experience. While they entertain, these stories subtly uncover the myriad contradictions and commonalities deeply embedded in looking at things with an Indian eye while adapting to Western mores and thought.
language: English
title: Shielding Her Modesty
titlecomplete: Shielding Her Modesty
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Frog Books