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India has used the short story format to disemminate knowledge, express political dissent, entertain, protest and explore human psychology.
Great Stories from Modern India brings under a single awning some of the most celebrated short-story writers out of India— Amrita Pritam, Balwant Gargi, Kamleshwar, Khushwant Singh, Krishan Chander, Qurrratulain Hyder, Ruskin Bond, to name a few. While each story presents yet another unfathomable spectrum of human ...
The lyrical prose of writer, journalist and film director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-1987) easily lends itself to short stories. In Sardarji and Other Stories, a captivating collection, the protagonists of each tale are portrayed grappling with realities imposed upon them by an unrelenting historical churning that compels them to revisit their relationships with their cultural, spatial and psychological moorings. Communal riots, poverty, abjection, love and ...
Widely known for his humanistic outlook and social realism, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas invariably drew inspiration from real-life situations and characters. In An Evening in Paris And Other Stories, the storyteller charms the reader with aspirational tales of ordinary men and women, guided forward by a lifelong dream. With dabs of magic realism and tales of wishful travel to faraway lands coursing through the stories, this is a fascinating collection.
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Wages of Love: Uncollected Writings is a collection of plays, nonfiction writings, stories, and poems by the renowned Kamala Das. These have previously not been compiled into an anthology.
The wide range of the collection includes an essay about how she contested in the Indian Parliamentary elections in 1984, but failed to win a seat. This book also has the story The Fair-Skinned Babu. In this story, Das tells the cynical tale of a woman who had converted to ...
