Thunderstorm

Ratan Kumar Sambhria portrays 15 stories with rare acuity the injustices rampant in a caste-driven society and the triggers that spark rebellion.

Poverty and greed degrade blood ties; money plays a dramatic role in changing equations between oppressor and oppressed; livestock and land become precious beyond measure.

Yet, love – between men and women, mother and child, a man and his land, and human beings and the animals they nurture – underlies such dark overtones, and integrity and honour shine through in the bleakest moments.

Remarkable for their craft and rendered here in an authentic translation.