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Unforgettable vignettes
This volume brings together some of the best and most memorable stories from Anand's published collections, each of them illustrating a different mood and tone. In his half-humorous and half-ironic way, Anand draws attention to the plight of the marginalised. Straightforward, unpretentious and expertly crafted, these unforgettable vignettes of life in twentieth-century India are sure to haunt the reader long after the book has been put down.
Selected Short Stories
Mulk Raj Anand
Penguin; Rs. 250
Light hearted stories
In 2005, Sulekha.com, the largest online community connecting Indians worldwide, offered a unique opportunity to writers -- The `India Smiles' contest. Writers were invited to submit a humorous piece of writing, fiction or non-fiction. Over a million members of Sulekha.com's global community helped shortlist sixty entries out of the five thousand received. A distinguished panel of judges then selected the three best entries with the outstanding entry among them receiving Rs. 1 lakh and the two runners-up receiving Rs. 10, 000 each. This volume brings together the best of the submissions. Real-life accounts of desperate parents lining up potential sons-in-law for unconventional NRI girls and of young mothers struggling to make sense of their suddenly topsy-turvy lives.
India Smiles
Penguin; Rs. 195
Poignant tale
On the evening of 17 December 1971, Indira Gandhi declares ceasefire against Pakistan. At just about the same time, in the Kashmir Valley-Kashir to its people - Salahudin Bhatt of Zaina Kadal, Srinagar, has another reason to celebrate: the birth of grandson, whom he names Ali, after Islam's greatest warrior. Yet, Salahudin is uneasy, for the boy's father has spoken the words of war in the child's ear, and who knows what the might portend? Evoking in fascinating detail the legends and rituals of Kashmiri life as well as the desolation of a land torn apart at its very seams this volume is a poignant tale about ordinary lives trapped in violent times.
Endless Rain
Meena Arora Nayak
Penguin; Rs. 295
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