Author: Sujan Singh
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Narinder Jit Kaur
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 151
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788126032839
Description
These thirteen stories in this collection are Sujan Singh’s representative stories which gave a picture of the changing contemporary contexts of that time when Punjab was moving from villages to towns, from illiteracy to literacy and from superstition to scientific temper.
These stories record the tradition that took place in the social and moral values and I the psyche of the people. Variety of issues such as human survival and rehabilitation, women education, communal harmony, human relationship, feudalism and a new awakening among people to fight it, explicitly reveal Sujan Singh’s philosophy of life, his humanitarianism and progressive outlook.
Contents
Foreword
Translator’s Note
1. The Power of the Pen
2. Kalyan Sundari
3. Lost and Found
4. The Miracle
5. The Stranger
6. The Real Sisters
7. Rai Sahib
8. Faith and Fallacy
9. Massacre of the Monsters
10. The Retribution
11. The Nescient Muse
12. Ramlila
13. The Full Circle
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