Gods, Demons and Others [antikvár]

THE WORLD OF THE STORYTELLER He is part and parcel of the Indian village community, which is somewhat isolated from the main stream of modern life. The nearest railway station is sixty miles away, to be reached by an occasional bus passing down the highway, which again may be an hour's marching distance from the village by a shortcut across the canal. Tucked away thus, the village consists of less than a hundred houses, scattered in six crisscross streets. The rice fields stretch away westward and merge into the wooded slopes of the mountains. Electricity is coming or has come to another village, only three miles away, and water is obtainable from a well open to the skies in the center of the village. All day the men and women are