Once Upon a Time

India is a vast and ancient land, a melting pot of cultures and civilization. Everywhere you go you seem to find chaos, confusion and color. Yet there is a method to this madness. It is why India and Indians have not only survived but thrived.

Life in all its variety is found here and this book is a collection of short stories that enchant and entertain

Radhakrishnan loves stories, listening to them and telling a few of his own. During his travels over India as a petroleum company official, in the last three decades, he heard many stories.

The stories in this book are set in central and western India. The stories explore a wide range of subjects and are written with a gentle humor. They are enchant and entertain even as they educate.

The stories are set in the 1980s and 1990s and much has changed in India since then, but much remains the same. The human elements are much as it was then.

These are stories that explore romance, adventure, travel and human emotions.

In the Well of death is a humorous look at the thrills and fears a young man experiences as he is too proud to speak his fears aloud.

Women and their status and attitudes to their education come up in a gentle romance in the Runaway groom.

Jealousy and how it wrecks a marriage is explored in the green monster and a Mumbai story is a short sharp tale of the Mumbai underworld.

The Locust attack is about the helpless nature of man in the face of nature as a biblical pest arrives.

In Rustic Romeo two aging brothers create a triangle over a woman and a clueless young man jumps in feet first to resolve it.

In the drinking demon,an eerie tale, you meet with a fortune teller with a difference,

The stories are written with gentle humor and empathy, the words simple. The locations and the characters come alive in this small book of stories.

In these stories you will find adventure, thrills, romance, love, mystery, violence, and the supernatural.
The stories open a window into the soul of India, a India which will amuse and amaze.