Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 271
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172236328
Description
The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well-plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativity flowers, and what emerges is a story that is marked with freshness and imagination.
This volume is chock-full with such stores, written by authors well known in their regional languages as well as those who made names for themselves in English literary circles. Carefully selected by Khushwant Singh, India’s literary giant, these pieces represent the best of Indian writing from around the country.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
ONE
An Indian Dream
TWO
Why Does the Child Cry?
THREE
Ramblings on a Beach
FOUR
Intermittent Fever
FIVE
The Birdman
SIX
The Leopard
SEVEN
The Tiger in the Tunnel
EIGHT
Those Thirty Minutes
NINE
The Brinjal Cut-Out
TEN
Flight 303
ELEVEN
Housewife
TWELVE
A house near the Sea
THIRTEEN
The Crocodile’s Lady
FOURTEEN
Descent from the Rooftop
FIFTEEN
It Was Dark
SIXTEEN
One More Dead Body
SEVENTEEN
Midnight
EIGHTEEN
A Flavour of Myrrh
NINETEEN
The Blue Hills Where the Sun Never Sets
TWENTY
Mataji and the Hippies
TWENTY-ONE
Memories of an Indian Childhood
TWENTY-TWO
A Candle for S Jude
TWENTY- THREE
My Aunt Gracie
TWENTY-FOUR
Honour
TWENTY-FIVE
A Tale of the Hijras
TWENTY-SIX
The Birth of a Poem