Tiger in the Portico and Other Stories

The book has 5 short stories. The title is based on the first story.

The first story is where two sisters are running for their lives, meanwhile, Tiger is running too and both of them end up in the attic. What happens next surprises the readers. This story is so different and I loved the ending.

This gave me the impression to read the upcoming stories in the book as I expected the stories will be more interesting and have unexpected endings and that became true as the stories moved from one to the next.

I loved the character Lili as she was very passionate about her work and loved the journalist Paddy and Mala's silence which made me crave for her words. Read this book to know the fictional stories these characters hold through Author's imagination

Each story gives you different emotions fear, love, sadness, nostalgia as each story is so different and I really enjoyed reading them all. It made me travel with the characters in the story. The narration is so lucid and makes the reader read with the flow as it is written in a simple and interesting way.

My personal favorite story among these 5 is ‘ The tiger in the Portico', because of the two sisters and the character Abdul, his mom, Forest ranger Mukul and especially the tiger which made me fear for the life of girls and made everyone wonder what it will do next.