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This is a collection of two novellas highlighting two burning problems that the society faces today - ill-treatment of in-laws in the hands of their daughter-in-law and live-in relationship.

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Ajay Mohapatra (b.1971), a story teller, novelist and a playwright of repute of Odisha is an Engineer by profession but an artist in passion; his paintings of life and manifold human aspects set him apart from many of his contemporary literary practitioners. As an ardent lover of Life and Nature, the master craftsman creates a wide variety of characters and unique situations with praiseworthy skill and flair. He has a genius for evoking the particular and peculiar atmosphere of relationships, their unspoken pressures and expectations, illusions, delusions and disillusionments. His men and women are of wildly different times and circumstances whose lives are made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Mohapatra's writing. His narrative style is simple and direct but the turns and twists are spell-binding.Besides a number of books on Engineering and Vastu, he has authored eleven collections of short stories, four novels and twenty-one plays that bear testimony to him as a prolific and popular writer. Some of his books and short stories have been translated into Hindi, English and Sanskrit. Mohapatra has been showered with a number of awards and accolades besides the coveted Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja Samman. Manoranjan Mishra (PhD) works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Government Autonomous College, Angul, Odisha. He has more than eighteen years of teaching experience. His hobbies include translating short stories from Odia to English and vice-versa. Best Stories of Chandrasekhar Dasburma (ISBN 93-86437-93-7) is his first published translated text. Some of his translated stories and research articles have been published in Galaxy(ISSN 2278 9529), The Creative Launcher (ISSN 2455 6580), The Criterion (ISSN 0976 8165), Langlit (ISSN 2349 5189), Ashvmegh (ISSN 2454 4574), Muse India (ISSN 0975 1815)and Sahayogi (ISSN 2454 6828). He has edited Contemporary Odia Short Stories (Black Eagle Books, 2020).

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