English Summaries

Money                                                                -      Muppala Ranganayakamma ‘Money’ is a short story written by Muppala Ranganayakamma who is a well-known Marxist writer best known for her work “Ramayana Vishavruksham”. This story, originally written in Telugu is a translation into English by N. Usha. It targets the social evil of dowry and shows how human relationships lose their sanctity owing to human greed for money. The writer critically looks at the social issue of dowry through this story. She highlights the degenerating human relationships as the greed for money increases. The narrator experiences surprises after surprises as the would-be son-in-law meets his prospective father-in-law to negotiate dowry with him. The prospective father-in-law agrees to give one crore in dowry which was a surprise. Even more surprising was that the well-educated man asked for a dowry and the well-educated woman agreed to give a dowry! The son-in-law becomes g