Story telling creates a cultural phenomenon and expresses a range of emotions exploring the implications of rhetoric and cross- cultural communication. The novel “Suraj Ka Satwa Ghora” of Dharamvir Bharati consists of five stories which define love and through a moral give a glimpse into the life of the middle class, emphasising the explicit and the implicit elements of the human psyche. The novel falls in the category of post-modernist writing and the paper explores how the power of storytelling is a recuperation of memory, collective identity formation and an assertion of an oral tradition in literature