Review: There Will Be No Love: A collection of short stories

There Will Be No Love: A collection of short stories There Will Be No Love: A collection of short stories by Ajeet Bharti
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a mixed bag like his Hindi book "Bakar Puran" which I liked in parts.

Some stories are good some bad and some plain boring.

I liked "That wasn't consent". It is a strong critique of leftist people in JNU type universities and journalistic and liberal circle. Anas Mahmood is a leach who abused Shalini. This talks of #metoo and sexual abuse. However I think the author is highly biased against the left people. In Bollywood, corporates and politics where sexual exploitations and favors are rampant, most sexual predators are capitalists. Still it was good story.

The last story "The process" was boring and prosaic and it was a long winded. I couldn't understand what Ajeet bhai was trying to say.

Some stories were set in villages and talked of caste exploitations. In these the view point of author seems contradictory. Sometime it appears he is against this caste exploitations and sometime he appears to defend it and favors the upper castes.

The orphan is a long story. This one is high on exposition and very low on story telling. This contradicts the principle of "Show not tell".

All in all it was mixed bag and decent one time read.




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