Aruni Kashyap’s first novel The House with a Thousand Stories was predictable, albeit honest and necessary. But his latest short story collection His Father’s Disease treads on uncharted territory hitherto unexplored in writings from the author’s homeland Assam. In His Father’s Disease Kashyap precisely embarks on a journey to undo this stereotype, the single story surrounding his homeland. He makes no effort to play safe by catering to the mainland’s expectations from a writer coming from India’s Northeast. Kashyap efficiently shatters the myth of the home as a spatially localized unit.

Source: Huffington Post December 14, 2019 05:03 UTC