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These fifteen stories reflect contemporary cultural changes in Indian families. They stand witness to social, political and economic changes in globalized India and are in a way histories told from below. The writer's interests are wide-ranging from children and women issues to unethical practices in professions, to devastation of farmers' lives and to environmental degradation. Her empathy with the world of nature, keen observation of little creatures and plants and trees is unparalleled, and nature is the real friend to her lonely characters. However, damaging the current divisive and destructive forces are, her characters fight against these at times boldly and at others quietly, and live in hope and find happiness while playing positive role in other's lives.

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Dr CHANDRA LATHA broke into the Telugu literary scene with the publication of Regadi Vittulu in 1997 when she won the Telugu Association of North America award in a competition for her novel depicting the lives of farmers during the green revolution. Her other novels include Vardhani (1995) dealing with the psychology of a spoilt child brought up in a joint family, Drushyadrshyam focusing on environmental issues arising from the displacement of a village in submersion, and Vallu Veellu Paarijaataalu (2011) sensitively depicting honour killings and khap panchayaths.Her short fiction - compiled in Nenu nanna navutha (1996), Idam Sareeram (2003), Vivarnam (2007) and Bottetti (2020) - delineates issues ranging from concerns of women and children, to cultural effects of globalization, medical advances and software boom on individual lives. Her non-fiction describes the demands of environmental and socioeconomic issues: Chepa Legara Vaccu! (Fish can fly!) Vacche Daretu (2010), Itanala Kadavaku Eeboothi Botlu (2010). Her latest novel Neelumpuraasi (2022) is a thoroughly researched historical novel that deals with indigo farming and trade in the 19th century Andhra Pradesh Dr C.L.L. JAYAPRADA retired from Andhra University having taught English Literature for thirty years. She is a bilingual translator with more than half a dozen published works to her credit: He Conquered the Jungle (Macmillan, 1998); Purusha Ahankaraniki Sawal (Hyderabad Book Trust); Stories of Tenali Raman (CBT); Yagnam and Other Stories (Sahitya Akademi, 2006), Beyond the Backyard: Telugu Women Writers' Contemporary Stories with P. Sathyavathi and V. Pratima (Sahitya Akademi, 2019) and Sri Narayana Guru (TTD). She won the Jyeshta Literary Award for Translation in 2000. She has published more than 80 stories in Telugu and English national journals. Her English translation of Tirumala Ramachandra's

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