# Fruit and other Stories

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**Author:** Gollapudi Srinivasa Rao
 **Pages:** 90 **Year of Publication:** 2010**
Price:** HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-963-8 (9788181579638) FB 
978-81-8157-964-5 (9788181579645)

_**About the Author**_
 Gollapudi Srinivasa Rao graduated in Law and holds a post-
graduate degree in Human Resource Management. He is a Principal Correspondent for
_The Hindu_. He received the Best Journalist award from the Government of Andhra
Pradesh for the year 2004, for his stories on women empowerment and the illicit 
liquor menace in tribal areas. Rao writes stories in Telugu and English; the latter
have been published in _The Statesman_ and _Pratibha India_. He is the managing 
editor of the literary e-journal, [Muse India](http://www.museindia.com/), which
promotes Indian writing in English.

_**Teaser**_

In his Foreword to the book, Professor K. Damodar Rao writes:

“Anyone who reads [Mr. Gollapudi’s] first English short story collection will be
convinced of his qualities as a good writer: He has a compassionate view, attentive
and sensitive eye, and more importantly fine sensibility, and feel for social realities.
In most of Mr. Gollapudi’s stories, pacing of the narrative is smooth, free-flowing
and effortless. The characters too, are rooted firmly in the soil, and hence carry
the stamp of authentic feel; they are down to earth, drawn from different walks 
of life, some simple and rustic, others wily and exploitative who know ways of the
world. The focal point in all the stories is contemporary middleclass milieu wherein
the writer examines how a set of individuals living in a (dis)comfort zone of their
own behave and interact with others in a given context. The writer succeeds in bringing
out their different shades, moods, temperaments and attitudes.”

_**Contents**_
 _Foreword_ / 9 _Preface_ / 17 Aesop’s Good Fate / 19 Bitter Fruit/
25 Canker to the Core / 31 The New Emperor / 36 Eye / 44 The Last Witness / 49 The
Reluctant Philanthropist / 54 The Riddle / 58 A Benefactor/ 63 The Design / 67 The
Heir / 72 Bloody Revelation / 77 Fruit / 82 The Night / 85