Hundreds of Streets to the Palace of Lights is a collection of some of the
stories by S Diwakar published in two collections and some others that are as
yet unpublished. Each story is an indigenised version of short stories from all
over the world. The writer's passion for music, cinema and the visual arts forms
the content of the stories and his experimentation with a variety of styles
infuses freshness into each one of them.
The stories have to do with the seemingly unreal experiences in real time
situations; nothing is as it seems to be. While handling such themes as the
varied faces of