The Trifling Stars Of Meaningful Life

By SUMIT TAK

"He wished to make a new planet of love and union, a new planet of trust and wisdom. In a hope of the great future, he reclined in his dreams." 

 

This book is a collection of short stories. But, in fact, more accurately, it is a sojourn through timelessness. With its candor and simplicity, the author has spun a world with a thousand different meanings. And a million different questions.Each of these questions engages you, it asks you to name it, to think about it, and to answer it. This book is also about self-discovery. It hints of a sublime primordiality vestiges of which exist in our consciousness, playing hide-and-seek, waiting to be found.You will end up asking yourself from where it is that you have come and where you are going. In your mind. Sometimes, the narrative softly flows and ebbs like the tides by a quiet crystalline beach someplace far away. You will find yourself standing, as if barefeet, on that beach looking far off into the horizon, and deep within yourself … at the same time. As you go by your daily lives, most of the time you ask yourself "why". This book will get you to ponder "why not".It speaks of possibilities. The author writes simply, carefully, deliberately, his words transparent and fragile. After reading this book, you will feel that you should have read it sooner. You will find it delightful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Self
• Release date: Jan 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201819781

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Sumit Tak

The Trifling Stars Of Meaningful Life

Copyright © 2019 by Sumit Tak

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Sumit Tak asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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Dedicated to

My Grandmother, for her courage and wisdom

My Father, for his freedom

and

My Wife, Madhavi, for her belief in me.

Contents

Preface

1. The Thirst

2. I am You

3. Eat it, or Never

4. Good Hope

5. The Betrayal

6. The Holy Structure

7. A Little Ghost

8. He loves He

9. Shoes of a Crab

10. The penitence

11. The Crowd

12. A Squirrel in the garden

13. The Moralistic men

14. A bear behind a tree

15. An old man below a tree

16. East or West

17. The fundamental Question

18. An apple between wife and husband

19. Little matters in the end

20. Saint Frog Wealthy Frog

21. The Newly Wed

Afterword

Preface

Do you want to be a sweeper when you grow up? Mr. Pradeep Kale, my maths teacher, smacked my back with his big, round hand. I was gazing out the window at a sweeper, an old man with wrinkled face and gray hair who could barely walk, who was cleaning the premises of the school. The whole class burst out laughing at me.

The smack was so hard that I had choked back tears in my throat. He stared at me, making his eyes bigger, eager to insult me or beat me more. He punished me by making me stand on the bench until his class ended. That day he lectured me, and because of me, the whole class had to bear his loud, moral-but-hollow words.

He began with