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About Myself:

I was born and raised in Kolkata, India. I then crossed continents and culture to earn a Ph.D in Economics at the University of Rochester (NY). Except for a few years of teaching in Canada and Japan, I was a professor at the Indian Statistical Institute both in Delhi and Kolkata until my retirement in August 2006. I am now embarking on my second career, that of a fiction writer of short stories.

I have published academic articles in professional journals across the
world and Oxford University Press (New Delhi) has published two of my books. However, my avocation for a number of years has been writing short stories that I did not have the time to polish and to try to publish.

Now, hopefully, is the time.

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Published Short Stories

Date	Title	Category	Hits
Aug 21, 2008	A Toothy Tale	Humor	28
Aug 20, 2008	Her Face -- A Haiku	Poetry	70
Aug 17, 2008	Eulogy to a Frank-fArt-er, Chapter 2	Humor	28
Aug 17, 2008	Eulogy to a Frank-fArt-er, Chapter 1	Humor	63
Aug 16, 2008	Memory Lane 1	Non-Fiction	58
Aug 14, 2008	A Date with Priya	Romance	300
Aug 13, 2008	The Treasures of Crocodile Grandpa	Miscellaneous Stories	63
Aug 12, 2008	The Predator 2 -- A Haiku	Poetry	92
Aug 11, 2008	The Predator 1 -- A Haiku	Poetry	137
Aug 9, 2008	The Kingfisher and Other Stories	Miscellaneous Stories	112
Aug 8, 2008	Paradise Regained -- A Hairy Tale	Humor	111
Jul 28, 2008	Ephemeral -- A haiku cum senryu	Poetry	153
Jul 25, 2008	Lover -- A Haiku	Poetry	129
Jul 23, 2008	The Born Loser	Humor	157
Jul 4, 2008	The Man Who could not be a General	Miscellaneous Stories	119
Jul 2, 2008	A Sigh to Remember	Humor	132
Jun 30, 2008	A Flat atop the New Market	Romance	169
Jun 13, 2008	A nobody called somebody	Miscellaneous Stories	132
Jun 9, 2008	Plutonic Love	Romance	158
Jun 6, 2008	The Dog and I	Miscellaneous Stories	114

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Total number of comments: 167

Title article: Blind Faith, Chapter 3
Date: 2008-08-21 02:00:30

Action packed
This is a truly action packed tale. Liked every bit of it and am wondering what you will be up to next. Incidentally, the last sentence of the paragraph beginning with 'My name's not important, ...' appears to have a typo. Great suspense story once again.

Title article: SECOND SEX.
Date: 2008-08-21 01:36:10

The two steps
Did you mean 'Like wild, frightened birds, ...'?

I liked the end -- 'too little, about all too much.' The exact opposite of 'Much ado about nothing!'

You transcended the barriers of physical intimacy and used the ACT as a ladder as though, meant to reach the mind. And this makes, at least to me, the title 'Second Sex' most meaningful. The first step is taken, but the second one, the 'all too much' remains unexplored.

I may have interpreted you incorrectly. But does it matter? I liked it anyway.

Title article: Him
Date: 2008-08-21 01:16:04

Interesting potential
Clearly it can turn into a good science fiction. It reminds me, perhaps for the wrong reasons, of Robin Williams' Bicentennial Man. The robot, or clone if you like, who was the exception to the rule.

Title article: The Necromancer
Date: 2008-08-21 01:03:23

Second version
I didn't get the chance to read the first version. However, I read Harmattan's comment and think 'plural' would still be better. At the level of idea, this is a very intelligent story indeed. If we went back a few centuries, your necromancer could have faced the inqusition, instead the priest giving up his ghost. Liked the story and its message. I have no views on the length.

Title article: Punishment
Date: 2008-08-21 00:00:26

Revised version?
I think I am reading this a second time. Is it a revised version? In any case, the two best sentences in my opinion are (1) I step to the other side of the cage I've called home for what seems an eternity, but I know...eternity is what awaits me. (2) A guard begins to shave my head void of any hair, he does so with surgical gloves, as if I'm a diseased maggot, and perhaps I am. Also, I felt the force of the 'levels of punishment' idea. Not knowing God before eternity begins, i.e. during his stay on earth, and then not knowing him for the rest of eternity, when he will live in Hell. Craftily put, to say the least.

I am reminded about the circus kid in your other story. The nature of eternity showed up there too. Perhaps you have other stories too where eternity creeps in. It happens to me a lot. When I feel I have seen something, I try to look at it from different angles.

Of course, this may not be a correct interpretation of your work.

But this one was very good.

Title article: Heaven Sent, chapter 1/4
Date: 2008-08-20 10:29:28

Late comer
I am a late comer to this story and I noted that there were chapters to follow. From what I have read so far, I am not sure that I followed what happened at the end. But I could read through the rest of the story smoothly enough. I guess I need to look into the next chapter to clear my doubts.

Title article: September 1896
Date: 2008-08-20 09:54:21

Great writing
When calamities strike, it is natural to look for a logical reason underlying them. And this is God's hour of crisis I guess, since mankind imagined him in a well-defined way. To prove that he satisfies the definition humanity expects him to satisfy may not be an easy task, even if he exists. I can't prove that I am something you believe me to be! In any case, there is no point pursuing this line of thought. The important thing is the story. It is vivid, it happens right before your eyes. Like a bolt from the blue, it devastates all that you loved and lived for. And then life refuses to be over. It goes on and you have to adjust to a new world, new faces, new relationships. At the same time, you cannot escape the thought that it could happen again. It is a terrifying story, it is a realistic story, it is a story that could happen to any of us.

Title article: HENPECKED HUSBAND
Date: 2008-08-20 07:59:55

The Title
Well, you have stuck to the title theme. This piece of rhyme held promise of a gread deal of humour. For some reason you didn't exploit it fully. I think it can accommodate several twists and turns and that way it can extract lots of giggles.

Title article: A Freak of Nature
Date: 2008-08-20 07:50:29

why does he always have to die?
Perhaps the key sentence in the story is 'why does he always have to die?' The answer probably is: 'because immortality is a curse!' I don't know if I have been able to establish a wave length with you. But I am reminded of a dialogue from Zorba the Greek. It went as follows:

Anthony Quinn: Why do people die, tell me that.

Alan Bates: I don't know ...

Anthony Quinn: Well what's do your damn books tell you if you don't know the answer to this?

Alan Bates: They tell you about the agonies of men who can't answer questions like yours.

In your story, if the boy lived forever, there would be no need for the father to tell the story to his little daughter. The world would remain sad for the rest of eternity.

Title article: DOLL.
Date: 2008-08-20 07:01:09

Dark Subject
As Phil observed, this is a dark subject. Undoubtedly so. It was depressing to read through the girl's experiences. What I am trying my best to understand is the role played by the doll in the story. Clearly, it has a deep symbolic meaning. The way I tend to interpret is that it symbolizes the silence of nature or fate if you will, as humanity loses itself in dark abysses. However, the girl's mother's obsession with the doll is not entirely clear to me yet. It was a very good piece of writing though.

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Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) The Moon	Created On: 08/18/2008 01:58:06 Thank you! Yeah, I'd like to be publishe, too, but I have years before I'm good enough for something like that. And thanks for reading Jericho, i should be finished with the next chapter later today. I haven't read too much of your work but I'll start doing that later on today also. Once again, thanks!
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk)	Created On: 08/11/2008 01:01:41 Just wanted to stop by and thank you for the nice, intelligent review on my story, "The Book Cellar". Peace, Max

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