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The Chronicler's Daughter
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The Chronicler's Daughter

By: Kishor Thukral

Fiction Indian Fiction
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The enormous city of U Belly bristled with street dogs, stray cows and mosquitoes, but its inhabitants were nevertheless a contented lot. Governed by a City Council of five Wise Men, or Elders (of Whom, the Eldest had been on his death-bed for thirty years), and cordoned off from the rest of the world, U Bellians had nothing to complain about, and everything they could dream of: food, work, houses, schools, hospitals, roads, parks, certitudes. Only the Chronicler's daughter, who was slim and n...ot rotund like other U Bellians, questioned acknowledged wisdom. To her, her fellow citizens' contentment was mere complacency, and the Elders' benevolence a ploy to retain power and privilege. Her dissent incensed the Wise Men who, suspending all intra-Council political machinations, bore down on her as one and pronounced their sentence - five annual Banishments.

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