The Mirror Within - A Collection of Short Stories

This book on short stories explores the struggle that is an inherent part of man's life all over the world, in various points of time in history. They explore the times before the aggression of the internet that changed the concept of life, perchance forever. The stories seek to identify the reason for the obstacles in his path of life and how he sought his denouement. Sometimes, he has tried to rewrite history by challenging his fate, and at other times, he has been merely a marionette in the hands of destiny. Perhaps he has succeeded because he was always one step ahead in his struggle for existence. The stories try to express this challenge and how man strives to rise to the realm beyond.

About the Author: Susmita Bhattacharya is an academician and an artist. As an educationist, she is dedicated to the shaping of young minds through innovative means of teaching. Her thoughts on existential crises and how man has overcome it through the ages has been explored and expressed with characteristic verve and consummate imagination in this book on short stories.