Rameshchandra Shah Ki Lokpriya Kahaniyan

Rameshchandra Shah is among the few Hindi writers who attempt to examine their Indian experience from their own perspectives. Because this experience is itself complex, multifaceted, and synthetic, Shah explores every genre to express itwith a unique curiosity and restlessness. Shahs stories explore the crisis of the Indian culture we discuss today, within the torn soul of the average, mundane, and everyday experiences of the Indian man. The truth in these stories is revealed not through a fight with the world, but through a fight with oneself. A middle-class Indians humorous, anguished, lamentable monologue, in which he debates his society, the world, God, and most importantly, his own self. In many of his stories, Shah has expressed the talkative soul of a weary middle-class Indian at a deeply introspective level: like a postman who delivers the minds messages to the soul, the souls pain to the body, and the bodys restlessness to the brain. Binding all this together is a highly conscious, playful, and intimate play, in which he even lets his poet in through a hidden window. What remains in memory after reading is not the events, not the dramatic fabric of the story, not even the storys theme in the traditional sense, but the hungry, proletarian restlessness of a bewildered Indian intellectual; some of it true, some merely self-torture, but nowhere is there any false consolation to soothe the heart. Nirmal Verma.