Things turn really bad when a letter to someone about his daughter makes it to the ‘bulletin board’ and becomes the talk of the town. Things turn bad when he sneaks off a post card with a nude picture meant for his boss and he just can’t resist doing the wrong thing, read perverted thing, whenever the opportunity presents itself. Other posts are put in a kind of bulletin board where anyone can take a look and pass on the message to the intended. He doesn’t maintain much discretion with the mail, conducting open sit-togethers to write and read letters for the illiterate. There is very little of that.Ībachurina Post Office, the first story, starts off about Bobanna who’s a ‘temporary’ post master for a temporary post office. The ones I’ve read by him tend to be light, even while addressing critical environmental issues. With that, he starts off marking a separate territory that he calls ‘protest literature’ along the lines of Ram Manohar Lohia. Among the reasons, the main ones are that it has become stale, dominated by academicians and professors with no scope for others to enter, and that it has failed to address the life of the common man living in villages. At the very beginning, in a 3 page preface, KP Poornachandra Tejaswi starts with a methodical takedown of the Navya school of literature.
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