Narayanan Raghunathan

The Blade of Grass and Other Stories Narayanan Raghunathan

These stories by Narayanan Raghunathan are brief but enchanting tales emerging from personal experiences and recollections merging into imaginative and truthful fiction. The precise yet intimate and charming, engrossing narratives draw the reader to enter along with the story-teller into seamless multi-sensory, emotional and intellectual spaces. They exude peace and Rtam and capture the heart of the reader, tenderly lifting the burdens of mortality as one recognizes ancient and immortal truth and beauty remembered and projected in these seemingly ordinary Earthly happenings. It is memories and new imaginations fusing into parables of vast spaces of Truth (Rtam) unfolding and revealing in the respective cosmoses of the beings conceived here. From their sensitive, humorous conversations to the things that each one sees, feels, perceives and their recollections and their joys and agonies, predilections and fears, and deeds. Each being shown here is verily a great destiny and a participant in a vast cosmic play and an expansion into a state of greater truth. And each story here is a unique universe to be entered and experienced, for the most authentic reading, as if they they were ones' own memories. Titles of the stories presented here The Blade of Grass The Hill-top Temple Gopala-Krishnan The Letter The Kingfisher and Her Fledglings Cheethai Ammai Hanuma Todi