Short Stories
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Read ‘A Face in the Dark’ from a new collection of Ruskin Bond’s most popular stories
Ruskin Bond
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‘Industrial Roots’: Penury, paucity, and pain of working-class women are unmissable in these stories
Ipshita Mitra
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A new book of short stories is based on eyewitness accounts of women’s lives in royal harems
Apala G Egan
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Rajkamal Chaudhary’s short stories give glimpses into newly independent India and its weariness
Rajkamal Chaudhary Saudamini Deo
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May fiction: Stories set in newly independent India, dystopian near-future India, and more
Sayari Debnath
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New in translation: Another set of short stories by the Malayalam author Benyamin
Benyamin
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A new anthology shows the richness and diversity of the modern short story from Bangladesh
Humayun Ahmed
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Dalpat Chauhan’s short stories depict violence, terror that Dalits face in their day to day lives
Dalpat Chauhan
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A film journalist’s new book of short stories follows the topsy-turvy world of Bollywood celebrities
Priyanka Sinha Jha
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A new set of Imayam’s short stories have been translated into English from the Tamil
Imayam
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This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres
Dinesh Chandra Sen
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‘The Blue Women’: The women in Anukrti Upadhyay’s short stories are unusual and unforgettable
Diya Sengupta
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A new book brings together legendary Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha’s short stories in translation
Vijaydan Detha
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Anukrti Upadhyay’s new book of short stories is a vivid portrait of strange and enigmatic lives
Anukrti Upadhyay
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‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal
Sayari Debnath
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Indian writers abroad: Chaitali Sen examines migration, power, longing in her new short stories
Chaitali Sen
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Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka is as witty and imaginative as ever in his new short stories
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Monkey’s Wound and Other Stories’: How women rebel against the cruel structures of patriarchy
Areeb Ahmad
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‘My Name is Not Malini’: Read Shehan Karunatilaka’s story from his new collection of short fiction
Shehan Karunatilaka
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‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ is in fact a collection of melancholy stories about people who do bad things
Sahana Hegde