DESCRIPTION
A tourist from India on his maiden visit to United States undergoes strange experience at the Grand Canyon. He was unable to swallow the bitterness of it, and perhaps tries to ignore it as illusonary but superstition had held sway. [1,838 words]
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Retired Bank officer. Written more than one hundred short stories in vernacular magazines in India and two anthologies were published. Visited length and breadth of India and also Malaysia, Singapore and United States and spent quite some time in Las Vegas, which gave an opportunity to write two stories with a back drop of casinos in las Vegas and Kuala Lumpur and also with the back drop of Grand Canyon in US.
[July 2001]
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"Though it was written as a personal experience, the suspense was maintained throughout and it was interesting." -- T V Rao.
""Very good flow which keeps the reader courious till the end" - Ramu " -- Ramu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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