The Mobile Phone

The Mobile Phone is a story of connecting with child within. It is about mourning the loss in and of childhood. Rohit, a tutor meets Prabhu, a child he teaches in the city, Delhi. The author uses “the paper mobile phone” as a symbol to connect with someone who is absent. Someone we seek or someone who could hold us in our helplessness. The novel makes an attempt to look at death and deal with mourning. It looks at child’s play and fantasy life. It looks at adults who are evolving in relationship.