Though all of them are translated from Marathi to English, the reader will never realize they are translations, kudos to Vikrant Pande, who translated them perfectly. He is currently a vice chancellor with TeamLease Skills University, Vadodara.ĭarkness is a collection of eighteen short stories all weaved around horror and mystery. Inamdar’s Rau: The Great Love Story of Bajirao Mastani and Shahenshah: The Life of Aurangzeb, Ranjit Desai’s Shivaji: The Great Maratha and Karna: The Great Warrior. He has since translated Milind Bokil’s Shala, N.S. Vikrant Pande started translating from the Marathi with Ranjith Desai’s classic novel Raja Ravi Varma, the story of India’s most celebrated painter. He has received 21 awards from different institutions including the Maharashtra State Government and the Sangeet Natak Akademi. Matkari’s works this far include a number of plays, collections of one-act plays, books of his short stories, novels, and poems and plays for children. He worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines in the 1970s.

Ratnakar Matkari (born 1938) is a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director and a self-taught artist.

With every page you turn, you’ll be looking over your shoulder to make sure no one’s there. Skilfully translated into English for the very first time, these chilling tales from master storyteller Ratnakar Matkari are bound to keep readers of all ages up at night. 225 INR (Kindle Edition)Ī boy who can predict the exact date a person will die… An elderly woman who knows that death is close, but learns how to cheat it… A child with a dangerous friend who happens to be invisible… A ghost who can’t stop reliving his suicide over and over again… People you’ll wish you never have to meet, and stories you’ll never forget.

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