On a tour to the valley of the Dull lake, where Rashid goes to win supporters on behalf of a corrupt politician, Mr.
His wife's departure robs Rashid of his eloquence and his little son Haroun, of the pleasures of a suitably long attention span and thus the story unfolds. In time Rashid's wife begins to share this perspective and finally leaves her husband with the rather abrupt conclusion that he was capable of nothing. In the course of the narrative Rashid, the master storyteller loses his power to fabricate stories when his wife leaves him and elopes with his neighbour Mr.Sengupta, a lanky cynic, who asks the most disconcerting question of the novel, "whats the point of stories that arent even true?". The 300 odd paged tale centres around Haroun, the young son of Rashid, who is also known as the Shah of Blah amongst his critics and as the Ocean of stories amongst his friends. Haroun and the Sea of stories is a political allegory written by famous British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie.
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