Description: Yasi, Rasa and Ta are three restless children who live modest lower-middle-class lives at the edge of town, but their imaginations gleam with threads of many colours. Bored bicycles move away from their owners in the hope of being stolen ... A light bulb in a sari shop mischievously switches itself on and off ... Chalk doodles squirm and squiggl...
Brief description: Vinod Kumar Shukla is known for his unusual style of writing that often borders on magic-realism. His most important works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt; made into a movie by Mani Kaul), Khilega to Dekhenge(Once it Flowers) and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi(A Window Lived in the Wall) which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999.