Gujarati writer Dhumketu’s renowned short stories are now available in this translated collection
From Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu translated from Gujarati to English by Jenny Bhatt Author Dhumketu.
Nine bosses had come and gone, but all nine had seemed like fruits from the same tree to Bhogilal. The first boss came and always chose Bhogilal to accompany his wife; the second one lessened that kindness but preferred only Bhogilal for his mundane errands. To be polite by nature, to be sweet-spoken, or to be practical-minded – these are not, by any means, terrible faults. Yet, for Bhogilal, under the auspices of these three kinds of virtues, pounding away at a railway job for twenty-one years under each of the nine bosses had worn him down in nine different ways.