An old man is suddenly able to curse to death those who annoy him. An English-speaking thief has long conversations with his tied-up victims. A forensic accountant becomes obsessed with bringing down dodgy start-ups. An online troll suspects he is going to be shot dead for his political views. The stories in Ruffled Feathers attend to men and women making their way through a grim world filled with sharp corners. But they do so with deep tenderness and wry amusement, exquisitely balancing absurdity with pathos. About the Author: After an MBA V Sanjay Kumar set up a finance company and a software enterprise, and in 1988 he partnered an art gallery called Sakshi. He began writing in 2010 at age 50. In ten years as a full-time author, he has published four works of fiction. Cities inform his writing. A larger debt is due to artists, poets, and musicians he has spent time with. Ruffled Feathers, his fifth book, has stories that have featured in award lists in UK and Australia.