The Bamboo Man — SHORT STORY 𝒃𝒚 Salma Sanam
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Those days, whenever he looked at Ratna, he had a queer feeling that she was Kusumala Devi, the mythical Soliga beauty, and only a deity could marry her.
Salma Sanam is one of those women writers from South India who have made their mark in the Urdu Fiction. Belonging to Bangalore, the District of Karnataka, India, she was born as Syeda Salma Bano and is a lecturer of Zoology. In 1990, she wrote her first short story, “𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘪” (The Light). Her collections of short stories include: “𝘛𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘦𝘳 𝘎𝘢𝘺𝘢 𝘏𝘶𝘢 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘩𝘴” (The visitor of Mount Sinai), “𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘫𝘩𝘢𝘳 𝘒𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘨” (The Autumnal People), “𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘷𝘪 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘵” (The Fifth Direction), and “𝘘𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘺” (Queued Up Faces). She is also the recipient of many national and international awards for her fiction.