Author: Eminent Contributors
Editor: Jehanara Wasi
Publisher: Srishti
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818707535X
Description
India's writers, from Rushdie to Roy, spanned the diversity of a nation which refuses to be defined by any consistent image. A taste of this diversity is contained in this anthology of short stories.
India, celebrating fifty years of independence, offered to the audience a haunting remake of "Vande Mataram". India entered the new millennium singing paens to information technology. India's writers, from Rushdie to Roy, spanned the diversity of a nation which refuses to be defined by any consistent image. A taste of this diversity is contained in this anthology of short stories.
As changeable as the monsoon sky, as exhilarating as a ride on a village swing, as taut as the kite strings at Makar Sanmkranti, as demanding of attention as the Ring Road traffic, this anthology of stories capture today's assertions and yesterday's nostalgia.
Contents
CHAPTER 1
Delhi : City of the Dead
CHAPTER 2
Jani's Morning
CHAPTER 3
Omens, Sacred and Profane
CHAPTER 4
Cry, My Beloved Child
CHAPTER 5
Give me Back My Country
CHAPTER 6
Simone de Beauvoir and the Manes
CHAPTER 7
Chocolate
CHAPTER 8
Twenty or Twenty-Five?
CHAPTER 9
Fig Blossom
CHAPTER 10
Lifework
CHAPTER 11
A Toast to Herself
CHAPTER 12
Recollecting Motherhood
CHAPTER 13
The Rooster and the Hen
CHAPTER 14
Anadi's Journey
CHAPTER 15
In Memory of Meera
CHAPTER 16
Bhadoo