Author: Eminent Contributors
Publisher: Books Today
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 218
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187478179
Description
In this anthology you will read stories by many writers well-known in their regional languages as well as those who made names for themselves in English literary circles. Between them they represent every part of the country from north to the deep south, from its eastern borders along Bangladesh to its western frontier with Pakistan. Almost every regional language is represented.
Is there something special about the Indian short story? Yes, there is. It sticks to the traditional rules of the craft. It is in fact short and not a novella or an abridged novel. It revolves round one or at the most two or three characters and does not have a long dramatic personae as in novels. It is limited in time and space and does not span decades or spread out in different locales. It also has a well-formulated central theme and does not touch upon several topics or clashes of personalities. It has a distinct beginning, a build-up and usually a dramatic end, frequently an unexpected one which sums up the story.
Contents
Introduction
An Indian Dream
Why Does the child Dry?
Ramblings on a Beach
Intermittent Fever
The Birdman
The Leopard
The Tiger in the Tunnel
Those Thirty Minutes
The Brinjal Cut-Out
Flight 303
Housewife
A Home Near the Sea
The Crocodile's Lady
Descent from the Rooftop
The Dark
One More Dead Body
Midnight
A Flavour of Myrrh
The Blue Hills Where the Sun Never Sets
Mataji and the Hippies
Memories of an Indian Childhood
A Candle for St. jude
My Aunt Gracie
Honour
A Tale of the Hijras
The Birth of a Poem