Farewell Ring and Other Short Stories

This is a collection of short stories written over a period of more than two decades by T. Vasudeva Reddy, the well-known poet, critic and novelist of international repute. Stories published in reputed journals over the period and a few fresh stories now appear in the present collection. As a short story writer he has carved a special niche for him in the choice of themes and in the portrayal of real life situations alive with the virtue of credibility in plot and characterization. His stories present a judicious balance of the old and the new worlds, the realistic and the imaginary. Within the restricted limits of short story TVReddy with the skill of a gifted writer exposes the shallowness and superstition, vanities and false values that mostly constitute the play of modern life with the device of veiled satire. The varied threads - social and economic, secular and spiritual, sentimental and psychological, rural and urban, the realistic and the satirical- are deftly woven into a unified fictional structure yielding a strong texture of a beautiful fabric of short story. What is remarkable in TVR’s stories is the message that springs naturally at the end of each story and it is this aspect of lasting message that invests his stories with the great durable virtue of readability. Undoubtedly it is a matter of sheer delight to read these short stories of TVR which aim at promoting human values.