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This book consists of a novella, Joey, and seven short stories : “Mrs. Hussain,” “Oindrilla,” “The Clock,”“Polly,” “Cordelia,” “Angrez Memsaheb” and “Gopal Chacha.”.On the insistence of well-wishers I have included an essay that I wrote as an undergraduate: “Listening to Rain.”
These stories and the novella belong to the old-fashioned and easy days of the 1970s and early 1980s and are set in Mirzapur and Allahabad (now Prayagraj). The novella is about Joey, an Indian child who loses her parents in a car accident in Africa and how she ultimately settles down emotionally in India. In the other stories we see how the characters navigate through life’s myriad circumstances. Love is the thread that binds most of these stories.
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Bandana Sharma
Bandana Sharma was born in Lucknow in the year 1957. Her father held a senior position in the Directorate of Education and her mother was a broad-minded and intelligent home-maker.
Bandana Sharma was educated at the St. Mary’s Convent in Allahabad and went to the University of Allahabad for her Master’s degree and her Ph.D in English Literature. She went on to teach English Literature at the Allahabad University for forty three years and retired as Head of Department and the Dean Faculty of Arts.
Early in her career, Bandana developed interest in Buddhism. Her Ph.D thesis, out of which the book Shakespeare Through Buddhism emerged. It is a study of Shakespeare in the light of Buddhism.
Bandana is married to her colleague, Prof. L R Sharma and has a son, Dhruv.
