The Fifth Direction

About the Book: The stories in Sushant Supriye’s story-collection “ THE Fifth Direction “ are a fine blend of fantasy imagination and hard-boiled reality. The stories in this collection embrace various issues like injustice against Dalits and minorities women’s rights father-son relationship scourge of communalism unemployment and economic recession etc. Some stories highlight the plight of men with integrity in today’s valueless and opportunistic society. Others explore the mind of criminals and the paranormal aspects. How mundane life makes us take intimate relationships for granted is also underlined in a few stories. Also some stories are a fine study in psychology. Husband-wife relationships are explored with adeptness here. Sushant seems to have mastered the art of story-telling. His language is lucid and fluid and he has succeeded in capturing human emotions in vivid colours. About the Author: Sushant Supriye was born in Patna (India) on 28.03.1968. He was brought up in Amritsar Punjab (India). He had his school education from St. Francis School Amritsar and graduation from D.A.V. College Amritsar. He topped in G.N.D. University Amritsar in Pre-University B.A. (English) Honours and M.A. English. He also topped in the University of Delhi (India) in M.A. Linguistics. He was a lecturer in English for a few years in D. A. V. College Jalandhar Punjab (India ). The English translations of his poems and short-stories have been published in several literary magazines and newspapers in India and abroad. He is author of an English poetry collection In Gandhis Country. He is an established and reputed poet and story-writer in Hindi and English with several collections of short-stories and poetry to his credit. He presently works as a Government officer in New Delhi (India).