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‘Absorbing, spare and often deeply moving.’-Ruskin Bond

‘Wild tales with a difference…Hazarika’s empathy with all creatures great and small comes through in these absorbing, spare and often deeply moving stories. Life in the forests and small towns of Assam is brought vividly to life by a gifted writer.’ -Ruskin Bond

A hunt goes brutally wrong in the jungles of Karbi Anglong. A young magistrate on a police raid is saved from inhumanity by the sight of a hen and her chicks. A solitary bachelor brings home a pigeon and learns the pain of loving a wild thing. An egret visits a man on a moonlit night. Three schoolboys chance upon a leopard and her kill in the hills outside Guwahati.

In lean, taut prose Dhruba Hazarika writes of moments when men encounter animals and the natural world-often, also the moments when they encounter themselves. These are poignant, memorable stories from a literary imagination of uncommon honesty and sophistication.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Dec/2009

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Dhruba Hazarika

‘Absorbing, spare and often deeply moving.’-Ruskin Bond

‘Wild tales with a difference…Hazarika’s empathy with all creatures great and small comes through in these absorbing, spare and often deeply moving stories. Life in the forests and small towns of Assam is brought vividly to life by a gifted writer.’ -Ruskin Bond

A hunt goes brutally wrong in the jungles of Karbi Anglong. A young magistrate on a police raid is saved from inhumanity by the sight of a hen and her chicks. A solitary bachelor brings home a pigeon and learns the pain of loving a wild thing. An egret visits a man on a moonlit night. Three schoolboys chance upon a leopard and her kill in the hills outside Guwahati.

In lean, taut prose Dhruba Hazarika writes of moments when men encounter animals and the natural world-often, also the moments when they encounter themselves. These are poignant, memorable stories from a literary imagination of uncommon honesty and sophistication.

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Dhruba Hazarika

Dhruba Hazarika was born in 1956 in Shillong. He graduated from St Edmunds College, Shillong, in 1976, and obtained his master's degree in economics from Guwahati University. After brief stints as a salesman in Delhi and as a lecturer in economics at Jagiroad College in Assam, he entered the Assam Civil Service in 1983 and is currently
Director of Sports & Youth Welfare, Assam. His short stories have been published in various newspapers including the Sentinel and the Telegraph. He is the founder secretary of the North East Writers' Forum established in 1997. In 1996, he received the Katha Award for Creative Writing in English. He is an avid trekking and martial arts enthusiast and is the president of the All Assam Taekwondo Association.

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