Description
One Story is a new project by the National Library Board that makes local short stories - originally written in Tamil, Malay, Chinese, or English available in other languages. The project aims to bring these stories to more readers beyond the language communities that they were originally written for.
Palaniappan, a cloth merchant, sells a shipment of defective cloth to his old friend Jamal in order to pay the rent for his shop in Arab Street. Jamal had helped him set up his business, and this act of cheating causes Palaniappan to feel guilty.
Dharma's Chariot offers a glimpse of what life was like for small Indian import and export businesses which prospered in the '70s and '80s, but gradually declined when technology made their middleman skills obsolete.
