# Dams across the Flow

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/03/26/dams-across-the-flow/
- Published: 2016-03-26T03:30:57+00:00
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**Author:** Mallikarjun B. Mulimani[⌊WP_20160323_17_06_29_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20160323_17_06_29_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 92 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 250 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
101-4 (9789350451014)

_**About the Author**_
 Born in 1979 in Karnataka, Mallikarjun Mulimani graduated
in Engineering and has been writing fiction and poetry. His first book, _**Abstractions**_,
published by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 2007, was a collection of poems and
digital paintings. His second book was a novel titled _Buddha in a Mercedes_ (published
by S. Chand, New Delhi). **Writers Workshop **has also brought out _**The Holy Plumber
and Other Stories**_, a collection of poems and stories, in 2009, and _**Operation
Epiphany**_, a novel, in 2012.

_**About the Book**_

In his foreword to the book, Professor K. Raghavendra Rao writes:

“In his fictional work, **_Dams across the Flow_**, Mallikarjun is experimenting
with a new kind of novel, which is different from both the realistic novel and the
novel of magical realism. What he is doing is not rejecting these modes of fiction
but drawing from both selective elements to create something new which is in search
of truth that lurks beyond the seen and empirically experienced world… Sharanu’s
attempt to build the first dam ends in a failure but this is not a failure because
there is always a second dam. On one level, Mallikarjun narrates an ordinary tale
of a young boy growing into an adult in search of gods and sex. But on a deeper 
level, he is wrestling with the meaning of this conventional narrative… Written 
in an innovative style, this novel explores the paradox of human life and destiny.
It captures the agony of being human – being in one world and trying in vain to 
shift to another world.”