Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1

Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9350292939

The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well-plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativity flowers and a fresh and imaginative story emerges. This volume is chock-full with such stories, written by authors well known in their regional languages as well as those who have made a name for themselves in English literary circles. Carefully selected by India's literary giant, the late Khushwant Singh, these pieces represent the best of Indian writing from around the country.

The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories
Author: Stephen Alter
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2001-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9351183335

Twenty classic short stories from master writers across the country This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in English and in the regional languages. Some of these stories – ‘We Have Arrived in Amritsar’ by Bhisham Sahni, ‘Companions’ by Raja Rao, ‘The Sky and the Cat’ by U.R. Anantha Murthy, ‘A Devoted Son’ by Anita Desai – have been widely anthologized and are well known. Others, like Premendra Mitra’s ‘The Discovery of Telenapota’, Gangadhar Gadgil’s ‘The Dog that Ran in Circles’, Mowni’s ‘A Loss of Identity’, O.V. Vijayan’s ‘The Wart’ and Devanuru Mahadeva’s ‘Amasa’, are less familiar to readers but are nevertheless classics of the art of the short story. This new and revised edition includes three additional classics: R.K. Narayan’s ‘Another Community’, Avinash Dolas’s ‘The Victim’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘The Wedding Shroud’. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories is a marvellous and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the Indian short story–a form that has produced masters in over a dozen languages–can offer.

Land of Five Rivers

Land of Five Rivers
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 8122201075

Noted Indian writer and translator Khuswant Singh's tribute to 18 major Punjabi writers whose stories he has translated in this collection of short fiction. The writers included here are familiar names in India - writers such as Amrita Pritam, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, and also two new women writers, Ajeet Caur and Usha Mahajan - among others.

Truth Love and A Little Malice

Truth Love and A Little Malice
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2003-02-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9351181359

Born in 1915 in pre-Partition Punjab, Khushwant Singh, perhaps India’s most widely read and controversial writer has been witness to most of the major events in modern Indian history from Independence and Partition to the Emergency and Operation Blue Star and has known many of the figures who have shaped it. With clarity and candour, he writes of leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the talented and scandalous painter Amrita Shergil, and everyday people who became butchers during Partition. Writing of his own life, too, Khushwant Singh remains unflinchingly forthright. He records his professional triumphs and failures as a lawyer, journalist, writer and Member of Parliament; the comforts and disappointments in his marriage of over sixty years; his first, awkward sexual encounter; his phobia of ghosts and his fascination with death; the friends who betrayed him, and also those whom he failed.

The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2009-02-20
Genre:
ISBN: 8184759045

‘A Khushwant Singh short story is not flamboyant but modest, restrained, well-crafted...Perhaps his greatest gift as a writer is a wonderful particularity of description’—London Magazine Khushwant Singh first established his reputation as a writer through the short story. His stories—wry, poignant, erotic and, above all, human—bear testimony to Khushwant Singh’s remarkable range and his ability to create an unforgettable PBI - World. Spanning over half a century, this volume contains all the short stories Khushwant Singh has ever written, including the delightfully tongue-in-cheek ‘The Maharani of Chootiapuram’, written in 2008. ‘Khushwant’s stories enthrall...[He has]an ability akin to that of Somerset Maugham...the ability to entertain intelligently’—PBI - India Today ‘His stories are better than [those of] any PBI - Indian writing in English—Times of PBI - India ‘The Collected Short Stories leaves the reader in a delightful, inebriated trance’—Sunday Chronicle ‘He is not an ordinary short story writer...[Collected Stories] is delightful reading’—Hindustan Times

The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh

The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This Volume Contains All Of Khushwant Singh`S Short Stories That Have Appeared In Smaller Collections, An Essay `On The Short Story` As A Lively Introduction To This Volume And A Hither To Un Published Story The Convent

Dreamtamer and Other Short Stories

Dreamtamer and Other Short Stories
Author: Avnish Burman Choudhury
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1638866082

Would you be able to escape a raging inferno, if your only way out was blocked by your deepest fears? Would you manage to survive on your own, or would you need someone’s help…anyone’s help… Should we fear those among us who perform seemingly impossible feats, or should we try and understand them instead? And in doing so, might we learn something that may enrich our own lives? Are changes in our relationships always brought about by arguments and force? Or may they sometimes come to pass effortlessly, through sheer good fortune? When you look in the mirror, how certain are you that the person looking back at you is truly…you? What if it isn’t…and what if they…don’t like you? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you…correct? How about: never do unto others, what you would never have them do unto you? This applies to everyone: you, me, and even the occasional serial killer. A bereft heart heals on its own. And with a little comfort and honesty, it may find love again…even where there was none to begin with. With tales of supernatural occurrences, fantasy, crime, love and personal growth, Dreamtamer and Other Short Stories explores multiple genres through a collection of six works of fiction. There’s a little something for everyone, and a lot for lovers of a good tale.

Harpercollins Book Of New Indian Fiction

Harpercollins Book Of New Indian Fiction
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005-02-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this unparalleled collection of short stories, The HarperCollins Book of New Indian Fiction presents an absorbing view of one of the most fertile literary landscapes in the world. Traversing continents and orbits, styles and themes, in rich, original and frequently surprising ways, the stories testify to the range and depth of Indian writing in English. Variously lyric, satiric, tragic and fantastic, they are unified in their vigour and humanity. T The anthology features a rich assortment of voices from both new authors and established names including Abraham Verghese, Manju Kapur, Githa Hariharan and Amitava Kumar. With an insightful introduction by Khushwant Singh, one of India's foremost literary personalities, this is the definitive survey of a lively modern scene.

Intimate Relations

Intimate Relations
Author: Sudhir Kakar
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1990
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780140122664

This Ground-Breaking Work Explores In Detail India'S Sexual Fantasies And Ideals, The Unlit Stage Of Desire Where So Much Of Our Inner Theatre Takes Place . Kakar'S Sources Are Textual In The Main, Celebrating The Primacy Of The Story In Indian Life.