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RELATIVELY TRUE

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RELATIVELY TRUE, stories of Truth, Deception and Post-Truth from South Asia and Australia

Edited Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle

Publisher Orient BlackSwan Pvt Ltd

Authors: Shirley Hazzard, Eugen Bacon, Gulzar, Meenakshi Bharat, Alex Cothren, Tony Birch, Devika Brendon, Sharon Rundle, Cate Kennedy, Anne Benjamin, Sujata Sankranti, Kate Grenville, Priya Sarrukai Chabria, Andrew Kwong, Mitra Phukan, Bashabi Fraser, Yasmine Gooneratne, Rashida Murphy, Sunil Badami, Niharika Chibber Joe, Matt M Lupton, Susanne Gervay, Janhavi Acharekar, Gayatri Gill, Julia Prendergast. Proem by Dr Roanna Gonsalves.

Foreword by His Excellency, The Australian High Commissioner to India, The Honourable Mr Barry O’Farrell AO.   

“Relatively True is a vibrant collection of short stories that reflects on the porous boundaries separating lies, half-truths, and the truth. We live in a world of elastic truth, click-bait, disinformation and fake identities. Opinions, beliefs and conspiracy theories clamour to be given equal time and weight with facts. Whose truth is more relevant and meaningful—yours or mine? The stories in Relatively True confront and address this question, and more, in surprising and inventive ways. Each narrative probes the vexing impact that fluctuating ideas of truth have on us. From self-deception to trickery on a wider scale, this anthology of short fiction from Australia and South Asia enchants, provokes and enlightens, from the first story to the last.”

Orient BlackSwan Pvt Ltd.

Ebooks available at:

BookTopia website

Apple Books at https://books.apple.com/us/book/relatively-true/id6443119885

The Kindle e-book edition is available for sale on Amazon Amazon India: www.amazon.in/dp/B0B7WGLPQP

Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0B7WGLPQP

Amazon UK: Relatively True: Stories of Truth, Deception, Post- Truth from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia: Amazon.co.uk: Meenakshi Bharat &amp, Sharon Rundle: 9789354423055: Books

Amazon Canada: Relatively True: Stories of Truth, Deception, Post-Truth from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia eBook : Meenakshi Bharat, Sharon Rundle: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Paperback Print copies at:     New Edition Book Shop Fremantle            Book Depository       Blackwell’s Browns Books      ABE Books   or Publisher: Orient BlackSwan

Orient BlackSwan publishers book stand at the

WORLD BOOK FAIR 2023 New Delhi!

See video of World Book Fair, courtesy of Orient BlackSwan Pvt Ltd,  at https://fb.watch/iWp8k4QCpA/

Watch | Facebook

Tell us what you thought of these stories, we’d love to know

These collections of stories from well-known authors offer insightful glimpses of life in Australia and in India. We are keen to know what you think of the short stories.
Please review these anthologies and let us know how the stories affected you, which stories you enjoyed most and why. Thank you. Please go to this Review Link to leave your review. https://g.page/r/CfSgfcefUTTlEBM/review

Reviews

Amit Dasgupta AO, Former Consul-General of India to Sydney, Ambassador, Distinguished Fellow of the Australia India Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Society for Policy Studies, and the Inaugural Country Director of the University of New South Wales since 2016j, writes:

“I found them a superb collection! Launched the very first volume when I was in Sydney, wrote the Foreword for one, and moderated a panel dicussion with the volume la7nched by the then Australian High Commissioner to India Harinder Sidhu. Efforts like these volumes bring people together. Hopefully, they can be part of the syllabus someday. I have great respect for the initiative.”
 
Book Review in Indian Link by Salma Shah

 

Photos and video courtesy of Orient BlackSwan Pvt Ltd.  

Book Review by Salma Shah

Australian Short Story Festival 2022  

Eugen Bacon reads ‘Unlimited Data’ Eugen, Rashida Murphy, David Allan Petale (moderator) Eugen, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Rashida

Our brilliant Relatively True authors

Eugen Bacon, Rashida Murphy, Devika Brendon

spoke about “Telling the Truth”

at the Fremantle Arts Centre

Photos courtesy of Julia Mackay-Koelen

 

Relatively True: stories of Truth, Deception and Post-Truth 

launched by Indranil Halder at

Words on the Waves Writers’ Festival

at Woy Woy on June 2 2022

Sunil Badami, Anne Benjamin, Andrew Kwong, along with co-editors Sharon Rundle and Meenakshi Bharat. Malathi Nagarajan opened and closed the launch event with performances on the veena.

  More at Media page  and  https://wordsonthewaves.com.au/

See also: INDO-PACIFIC LITERATURE Indo Pacific Literature Events and Festivals

 

This fifth in our series of Indo-Pacific literature follows Glass Walls: Stories of Tolerance and Intolerance; Only Connect; Alien Shores; Fear Factor Terror Incognito. 

You can see and buy these books on the Home Page-Dr Sharon Rundle or the Book Shelf pages on this website.   

 

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His Excellency The Australian High Commissioner to India, the Honourable Mr Barry O’Farrell AO

The aim of the project..
. – Agathokakological Aussie Summer (facebook.com)

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