# The Holy Plumber and Other Stories

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**Author:** Mallikarjun B. Mulimani
 **Pages:** 116 **Year of Publication:** 2009**
Price:** HB Rs 200, FB Rs 150 **ISBN:** HB 81-8157-873-0 (8181578730) FB 81-8157-
874-7 (8181578747)

_**About the Author**_
 Mallikarjun Mulimani was born in 1979. He graduated in Engineering
and enjoys writing fiction and poetry. His first book, _**Abstractions**_, published
by **Writers Workshop**, India, was a collection of poems and digital paintings.
He has also written a novel titled _Buddha in a Mercedes_.

_**Teaser**_
 In his author’s note, Mulimani writes:

“_**The Holy Plumber and Other Stories**_ is a collection of ten short stories. 
The strength of these stories lies in their intensity and the tension of opposites
which I have tried to incorporate within them.

Each story deals with a different profession, or professions, and the protagonists
are made to confront their idealisms passionately. These confrontations are meant
to make the reader explore himself — physically, mentally and spiritually.

In these stories I have tried to make the protagonists professionals, from different—
almost opposite — fields, face each other with their own sets of values, using them
both as their weapons and armor.

Some of the stories have artists as their protagonists, and being a struggling artist
myself, I have tried to decipher and put into words the fears and desires which 
drive creative persons, including myself — with myriad consequences.”

_**Contents**_
 The Benevolent Despot / 11 The Narcissistic Artist / 19 The Civilized
Primate / 26 The Bulletin Gods / 35 The Friend / 43 The Silent Trees / 53 The Tube/
62 The Possessed / 71 The Holy Plumber / 83 The Hit Man / 112