SAVITHRI'S SPECIAL ROOM

Named after the black river that flows through it Karuthupuzha is a sleepy little town in the interiors of south India. But wait till you meet its inhabitants. A stingy accountant who wants to be a philanthropist a godman with a strange fetish the owner of an old age home who trades in pornography a rationalist brought down to earth by an orphan's curse and Savithri a kind-hearted grandmother filling her secret room with delicacies: there's a surprise waiting at the turn of every page.Told in a fresh new voice that's wry yet humane these tales will remind you of R.K. Narayan's Malgudi stories full of life's little ironies and delicate wisdom