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...with young and frightening Maoist guerrillas. Until a few weeks ago, its cities were brimming with baton-swinging riot police in blue fatigues and protesting students with torches in their hands. Average people doing average things seem about as common as yetis?except in the work of Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay. The Royal Ghosts, his new collection of short stories, is full of characters who care for sick parents, fall in love with the wrong people, cheat on their spouses or get drunk in the afternoon when they should really be more responsible. In short: normal folk living normal lives...
...Enter Samrat Upadhyay, Kathmandu-born but U.S.-educated, here to trim the verbal overgrowth. Upadhyay, whose first book was a well-regarded collection of short stories called Arresting God in Kathmandu, is that rarity among authors of a subcontinental drift: he is an under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything...
...Mercedes Murphy. Dealing (in part) with the barren aftermath of the tragedy of World War I, the poem took on new meaning in dealing with the tragedy, as New York City became the “Unreal City” of the poem. With harrowing background music by Samrat Chakrabarti, the difficult piece emerged as a relevant theatrical moment...
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