Govindan Nair associates Shakespeare with the current issues by announcing that “Shakespeare knew every mystery of the ration shop”. (CS: 74) Likewise, he talks of the mother cat as if he is delivering a soliloquy of the play Hamlet, “A kitten sans cat, that is the question”. (CS: 73) Though the novella has a limited scope for references of cultural sharing, as it is developed on a small-scale and centred on single location; yet Rao succeeds to weave the cultural threads of Indian and European philosophies