Elephants on the Mind (A Novel)

“Your mind needs to be as strong as an elephant to carry wisdom,” a professor tells his tired students in the title story. But if the wisdom itself weighs an elephant?Or elephants ? Characters grapple with elephants on the mind in each of the stories — an editor hovers over the restart button in the real world; a bedridden old lady recollects her sister-in-law’s morbid fascination with a Bollywood heroine; a troubled Sanskrit teacher mulls over why all neighbours aren’t friends. None of these have easy solutions. And therein lies a meanderingjourney for the reader —to pose questions hitherto unasked; encourage thoughts often unwelcome; and raise issues conveniently buried.