City Stories : Tales from Here and There

Author: Santosh Desai
Several Contributors/
Publisher: Scholastic
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 194
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8176559768

Description

Chennai, where a boy has to choose between magic and trickery; Delhi, where a doctor cures a case of Acute Rhymitis; Colombo, where a child of the slums loses his only companion – his beloved cat…

Frequently nostalgic, often humorous and sometimes grim, these stories from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, are about ten cities and the people who inhabit them.

CONTRIBUTORS

SANTOSH DESAI – Delhi
REHAN ANSARI – Lahore
BIKRAM GHOSH – Kolkata
SIDDHARTHA SARMA – Guwahati
ANUSHKA RAVISHANKAR – Mumbai
ESTHER DAVID – Ahmedabad
TIMER N MURARI – Chennai
NAKUL KRISHNA – Bangalore
S SANJEEV – Thiruvananthapuram
VIJITA FERNANDO – Colombo

Contents

A Fate Verse than Death
SANTOSH DESAI, DELHI

27 Nisbat Road
REHAN ANSARI, LAHORE

Vibes
BIKRAM GHOSH, KOLKATA

Bock Makes His Bones
SIDDHARTHA SARMA, GUWAHATI

Going Back
ANUSHKA RAVISHANKAR, MUMBAI

The Worry Box and Laughing Lady
ESTHER DAVID, AHMEDABAD

The Pickpocket
TIMERI N. MURARI, CHENNAI

Abu and Abril and the Amnesiac
NAKUL KRISHNA, BANGALORE

The Red Signal
S. SANJEEV, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

The Beast
VIJITA FERNANDO, COLOMBO

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