Hindi writer Bhuwaneshwar has been largely forgotten. A new book of his stories revives his work
‘Alas the human heart’, a short story from ‘Wolves and Other Stories’, Bhuwaneshwar, translated by Saudamini Deo. A book of Hindi short stories by Bhuwaneshwar.
That little incident now doesn’t seem as sharp and intense in memory’s blurred and sombre shadow. today, when I want to run away from this world of light, laughter and virtue to that ugly dark- ness in which I want to open my eyes with ebullience and insanity, I feel stifled. “Today” means my success, my courage; and the failure and cowardice of those innumerable men and women who competed against me in the race of life.