Countryside Tales

An interesting literary journey back in time capturing - within the breathtaking stories - the joys and sorrows thrills and disappointments of growing up in rural Punjab.</br></br>Bhupendra's stories bring out the simplicity sensibilities vibrancy languor humour and irony in lives from the Punjab countryside.</br></br>Countryside Tales is the closest you can get to the Malgudi Days of Punjab.</br></br>Bhupendra's powerful narratives transport the readers back in time to that place and situation where they become a part of the action and emotion. One can visualise the scenes so clearly that the feeling is of actually being present there.</br></br>Great memories narrated with utter simplicity. Bhupendra really has an amazing talent for bringing alive the people he writes about - and that too with crystal clear precision.</br></br>Bhupendra Dogra exhibits a great skill of transmuting personal memories into an impersonal and universal art. While reading the stories I felt like a toddler once again in the company of my young and muscular dad working in the fields in the village.</br></br>Bhupendra's stories capture the mood and aura of a bygone era perfectly. They remind me of R.K. Narayan's short stories especially Swami & his Friends!</br></br>Bhupendra is an amazingly gifted writer... a master story teller who is unbeatable in narrating and converting simple incidents into interesting stories.</br></br>A raconteur par excellence.</br></br>Bhupendra's relationship with his father must have been very very special. His abiding love for his father peeps through every word he writes about him.</br></br>Intensely engaging some of the best short stories that I have ever read in my life.