# Encounters

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2015/07/20/encounters/
- Published: 2015-07-20T21:51:00+00:00
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**Author:** Nita B. George
 **Pages:** 84 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **Price:**
Rs 250 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-095-6 (9789350450956)

_**About the Author**_
 Poet and short-story writer Nita B. George retired as an
Associate Professor of English after an active teaching career of 33 years. She 
is a graduate from St. Francis College for Women, Secunderabad, and an alumnus of
the Department of English, Arts College, Osmania University. She started writing
late in her life and her first collection of poems, _**Reflections**_, was published
by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 2012.

_**Teaser**_

An excerpt from the preface:

“_**Encounters**_ is a collection of 21 stories and anecdotes covering a wide spectrum
of life. The stories are intricately woven and bound to the theme ‘Encounter’. Ranging
from the simple to the complex, some stories have child protagonists but are in 
no way childlike in experience or perception. Arjun, the eleven-year-old, becomes
the ‘hero’ by default, or the bent of the human mind towards rationality in the 
face of an encounter between fantasy and realism in “My Favourite Story” is seen
even in a child who is just three years old… We all have our encounters with religion,
superstition, mischief and supernatural elements almost daily. “Pages from the Diary
of Sarah Gomes” dives deep into the mind of Sarah Gomes, unmasking her to the reader,
while rational objective perception does find room to counter her thinking. To the
discerning reader, “The Reluctant Redeemer” brings forth a story within a story,
as too the encounter between the past and the present. Life is full of encounters…
The desire for freedom of the mind from the strings of reason and rationale makes
the author now a child, now an adult.”

You can read more about the book [here](http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/whats-inside/article7110281.ece).

_**Contents**_

_Preface_ / 9

Arjun / 11
 Akash / 14 The Little Lost Cat / 18 An Eerie Encounter / 20 The Christmas
Present / 23 Bahadur / 24 The Magic Coin / 27 The Guest / 30 My Mother. My Mother/
33 Little Baby Steps / 37 Devi / 39 My Favourite Story / 43 The Night / 46 Grandmother/
50 Lal Pahad / 53 The Oblivion / 58 Markus / 62 The Tie Breaker / 65 “Amma, I Want
to…” / 69 Pages from the Diary of Sarah Gomes / 73 The Reluctant Redeemer / 78