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A Teashop In Kamalapura And Other Classic Kannada Stories

by Mini Krishnan, Susheela Punitha ...

A teashop in Kamalapura overflows with the lives, squabbles and sounds of its neighbourhood.Tansen sorely regrets abandoning his gifted son Bilas Khan in a story set in the Mughal court.A doting father sacrifices his children's happiness to serve the cruel demands of his upper-caste master.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced fr... ... Read more

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A teashop in Kamalapura overflows with the lives, squabbles and sounds of its neighbourhood.Tansen sorely regrets abandoning his gifted son Bilas Khan in a story set in the Mughal court.A doting father sacrifices his children's happiness to serve the cruel demands of his upper-caste master.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced fr...
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Maguni's Bullock Cart And Other Classic Odia Stories

by Leelawati Mohapatra, K.K. Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre, M Krishnan, K Mohapatra, L Mohapatra, P St-Pierre ...

To earn his living, Maguni desperately hopes for passengers to choose his old bullock cart over a bus.A gnarled sahada tree in a family's courtyard bears witness to a series of deaths.A young woman sold into prostitution faces the hypocrisies of a patriarchal world.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to... ... Read more

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To earn his living, Maguni desperately hopes for passengers to choose his old bullock cart over a bus.A gnarled sahada tree in a family's courtyard bears witness to a series of deaths.A young woman sold into prostitution faces the hypocrisies of a patriarchal world.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to...
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The Second Marriage Of Kunju Namboodiri And Other Classic Malayalam Stories

by Mini Krishnan, Venugopal Menon ...

Kunju Namboodiri wishes to marry a second time, but fate has other plans.A man visits the mythical city of Dwaraka in the first Malayalam fantasy tale.An abandoned infant is raised as a Muslim till her royal identity is discovered.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.Ringing with ... Read more

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Kunju Namboodiri wishes to marry a second time, but fate has other plans.A man visits the mythical city of Dwaraka in the first Malayalam fantasy tale.An abandoned infant is raised as a Muslim till her royal identity is discovered.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.Ringing with
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Indira Bai

The Triumph of Truth and Virtue

by Gulvadi Venkata Rao ...

Translated by Vanamala Viswanatha, Shivarama Padikkal ...

Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The bright, curious girl resists forces of social conservatism—the mindless chores and cruel rituals of widowhood. To reform her, the head of the religious mutt is brought in. When he tries to seduce her, a distraught Indira runs away to eminent lawyer Amrita Raya’s house. ... Read more

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Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The bright, curious girl resists forces of social conservatism—the mindless chores and cruel rituals of widowhood. To reform her, the head of the religious mutt is brought in. When he tries to seduce her, a distraught Indira runs away to eminent lawyer Amrita Raya’s house.
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The Complete Short Stories

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Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion. By turns poignant, acerbic, comical and tragic, many ... Read more

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Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion. By turns poignant, acerbic, comical and tragic, many
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The Complete Short Stories

Vol. 3

by Premchand ...

Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion. By turns poignant, acerbic, comical and tragic, many ... Read more

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Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion. By turns poignant, acerbic, comical and tragic, many
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Difficult Daughters

by Manju Kapur ...

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and ... Read more

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Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and
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The Shehnai Virtuoso

and Other Stories

by Dhumketu ...

Translated by Jenny Bhatt ...

When Dhumketu's first collection of short stories, Tankha, came out in 1926, it revolutionized the genre in India. Characterized by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation, and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, his fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers.Ratno Dholi brings together the first substantial ... Read more

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When Dhumketu's first collection of short stories, Tankha, came out in 1926, it revolutionized the genre in India. Characterized by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation, and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, his fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers.Ratno Dholi brings together the first substantial
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Kuttiedathi And Other Stories

by M T Vasudevan Nair ...

Kuttiedathi and Other Stories is a careful collection of ten short stories. This collection brings together some of the most well known stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his literary works. Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. M T ... Read more

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Kuttiedathi and Other Stories is a careful collection of ten short stories. This collection brings together some of the most well known stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his literary works. Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. M T
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Samskara

A Rite for a Dead Man

by U.R. Ananthamurthy ...

Translated by A. K. Ramanujan ...

Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means “rite of passage” but also “moment of recognition,” it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously ... Read more

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Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means “rite of passage” but also “moment of recognition,” it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously
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Timeless Tales from Bengal

An Anthology of Bangla Children's and Young Adults' Stories

by Miscellaneous ...

Buddhadeva Bose, the noted Bengali littérateur, once observed that the greatest treasure of Bangla literature is its children’s and young adults’ literature. The achievements of stalwarts as various as Rabindranath Thakur, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Ray, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Sunil ... Read more

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Buddhadeva Bose, the noted Bengali littérateur, once observed that the greatest treasure of Bangla literature is its children’s and young adults’ literature. The achievements of stalwarts as various as Rabindranath Thakur, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sukumar Ray, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Sunil
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Selected Short Stories

by Rabindranath Tagore ...

Translated by William Radice ...

Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and ... Read more

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Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and
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