Hyderabad: ‘Bombay Review and Other Stories’ is a collection of short stories inspired by real life incidents. The stories full of drama, romance, unrequited love, unbridled ambition, greed, crime plots, politics, inheritance, morality and conflict over allegedly immoral relationships all featured beautifully in the book. Talking about the characters, many of them are established and some are budding writers, singers and other artists, behind whom there are many heart-touching stories woven in the fabric of betrayal and struggle. The stories have been told with great sensitivity amidst the dilemma of sensuality, sexual frustration, dedication and attraction. Writer Ravi Valluri has beautifully woven the events happening around us in our daily lives into the story. The author has created the entire structure of the story in just a hundred words, which shows his maturity.
About ‘Bombay Review and Other Stories’:
As a collection of short stories, the stories of ‘Bombay Review and Other Stories’ are very interesting and narrate the struggles in modern lifestyle. Many such moments will be seen in the story, when the reader feels that he too has experienced same in his life. The first story revolves around the main character Swapnil Dasgupta who is a desk editor in a reputed daily paper based out of Mumbai. He got the new position due to the alleged misdeeds of his predecessor Rajdeep Sellar and the unethical pressure from the management regarding work often irritates him. As a journalist and writer, Swapnil is very vocal and aware, but somehow he is pressured to increase the circulation of the magazine by compromising on ethics. Meanwhile, circumstances suddenly and unexpectedly start becoming favorable for them, but his inner soul never able to accept the same.
In the next plot of the book, a unique experiment conducted in the classroom by maths teacher and is interestingly depicted. Which changed the direction of life of many characters of the story. Infct we are afraid of the whispers of people around us, whereas if we notice, there are many people among us who think good about me or you, in their heart. It is only necessary to change the perspective of thinking, radical changes in life automatically start appearing. Many similar stories are present in our everyday life which are interesting as well as inspiring. Author Ravi Valluri’s book Bombay Review and Other Stories is becoming very popular. This book is available on online mediums like Amazon, Flipkart and Pustakmandi.
About author Ravi Valluri:
Presently the author Shri Ravi Valluri is working as Chief Executive Manager (CEO) in Chhattisgarh East Railway Limited and Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited. After retiring from the Indian Railway Traffic Service, he did not stop his writing while leading a big project of GOI. His first book The matter of the Mind was very popular, which is also translated into Telugu. Apart from Sri Valluri’s first book, many books have been launched by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar himself. Mr. Ravi Valluri is also the Senior Faculty of Art of Living. More than a dozen books of Shri Ravi Valluri have been published so far. As a CEO, author Mr. Ravi Valluri has been able to keep his creativity alive despite his busy schedule, and he credits his devoted wife, Mrs. Lakshmi Valluri for this. Who supports him at every step in the writing, publishing and distribution of the book.
Sri Ravi Valluri says that he is largely inspired by the epic Mahabharata, Panchatantra stories and Jain stories. Because it depicts human emotions and human behavior in its entirety. Which is completely relevant even today in the life of our modern environment. According to Ravi Valluri, life is like a synodic curve. In which turmoil, ups and downs and some great moments are happening. Life cannot be seen from a black and white perspective, rather it definitely casts a big shadow of grey. Ravi Valluri’s stories are influenced to some extent by mythological characters like Karna, Arjun, Dronacharya, Buddha, Ashwatthama, Bhishma, Duryodhana, Shakuni and the heroes and villains of Panchatantra.
-Vijay Kumar
