BAHADUR CANT SLEEP

Bahadur Cant Sleep is a collection of 10 short stories by eminent Hindi author Dhirendra Asthana. These are the representative short stories selected from his wide range of short stories written during last 47 years. His writing is like silent thunder. He narrates the extra ordinary stories of ordinary lives of ordinary people. His special writing style makes these stories extra ordinary. Few Hindi authors have achieved this success during a long span of the last two decades of twentieth century and the first two decades of twenty first century. Great Hindi author Kamleshwar described his writing as - ‘While reading Dhirendra Asthana’s short stories one feels that a death procession is following a wedding procession.’ Kamleshwar’s contemporary author and late editor of Hans Rajendra Yadav once said to Dhirendra Asthana While going through your vision or process I feel how far the story has really traveled. Notable author of Dhirendra Asthanas generation Uday Prakash states The stories of Dhirendra Asthana not only reconstruct the rules of life but reconstruct life itself. Dhirendra Asthana Has published 46 short stories 8 short story collections 4 novels and autobiography. These 10 short stories will make the readers travel the lanes of love hate aspiration desperation struggle helplessness success and celebration. These are everybodys short stories.