Winter Queen And Other Stories

'Winter Queen' is the story of a prostitute, who dares to state unhesitatingly, 'Out of all the visitors coming to this Bungalow, someone might be my real father and someone else might be my real brother........ It might sound unpleasant, but can you tell with certainty that none of them had not slept with me for the night in their subsequent visits?" In the story 'Anumeya's Self-Portrait' Anumeya is an effemite character, devoid of virility. He couldn't live with deception and ultimately had to commit suicide. 'The Eyes' is a psychological story. Elija's psychology was devastated. The eyes transplanted on her blind husband Nirod was doted by a jailbird and her rapist. How that strong feeling of hate towards those eyes ultimately brought separation between Elija and her husband has been beautifully rrated in the story. The story of a royal breed bitch Rocky and its high society master in 'The Path to Freedom' speaks of an obsession with class difference. Each story is gripping and caters to a different taste. A rickshaw-puller Sania is temporarily swayed away by the beauty of a young girl. In the end he realizes his folly to filly come back to the truth of his life; his wife, in 'The Colours of a Rainbow'. The reader is left with pure joy of reading a great literature. The surprising end in the story 'Grandfather's Beloved' will definitely blow the reader out of his wits.

Sri Prados Mishra is a highly reputed and respected personality in Odia literary circles. He has wielded his literary pen in writing mostly short stories, novels and travelogues. The total of his published books will be around twenty five in numbers. Many of his short stories and novels are highly acclaimed and have received rave comments from the literary critics of Odisha. Some of his stories have been translated into various other Indian languages.. He not only writes stories on relationships but also is an adept in writing events related to deeper psychological feelings of pain and pleasure. His fictions seem too realistic as they come out of deeper understanding of human nature and human psychology. His story telling abilities, with which he depicts his fictions, are capable of creating soul searching commotion in the mind of the readers. His special ability is discovering and describing the extraordinary attributes of the most ordinary, mundane characters selected from the society. His fictional writings are backed by deep observations and some amount of research, both on field and off field. He makes all his characters come alive through his literary pen. Life philosophy and its various positive attributes, viewpoints are presented in his fictions in an absorbing manner. He is capable enough to end his stories in an unpredictable yet appealing style. Quite often a subtle thread of message is discernible in his writings. Almost all his stories and novels are always gripping and literally satisfying