True to the genre of science fiction, this volume is teeming with aliens and spaceships, time travel, robots, the future world and amazing scientific inventions that tempt wrong-doers and children alike. A wonderful collection of sci-fi short stories that will tantalize young minds.
The stories are told from the perspective of a child-hero who interacts with the adult world or even aliens on his own terms. In the title story ‘Kelo Gunda Udhao’, the child Phuchka is not only annoyed with his father for making him work out sums on a holiday but also angry with Kelo, the ruffian, who bullies a poor old woman in the neighbourhood to evict her from her rented premises.
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