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Modern Indian Short Stories
Published by the Penguin Group
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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
First published by Penguin Books India 1989
This revised edition published 2001
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This collection copyright Penguin Books India 1989, 2001
Introduction copyright Stephen Alter 2001
Copyright to the individual stories rest with the respective authors and translators
All rights reserved
ISBN: 978-0-143-02775-1
This digital edition published in 2013.
e-ISBN: 978-9-351-18333-4
To Natalie Augden (S.A.)
To Doreen (W.D.)
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser and without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above-mentioned publisher of this book.
Stephen Alter is the author of the novels NeglectedLives,SilkandSteel,TheGodchild and Renuka, and two works of non- fiction, AlltheWaytoHeaven and AmritsartoLahore. He lives in Reading, Massachusetts with his wife and two children and teaches Creative Writing at MIT.
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Wimal Dissanayake is a professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his doctorate from Cambridge University and has published over thirty books on literature, film and communication. He is an award-winning broadcaster and poet and is the founding editor of the East-WestFilmJournal.
Every effort has been made to ensure that permissions for all materials included in the book were obtained. In the event of any inadvertent omissions, the publishers should be notified and formal acknowledgements will be included in all future editions of this book. Special thanks and acknowledgements are given to:
Pritish Nandy for TheDiscoveryofTelenapota by Premendra Mitra published in 1984 in TheIllustratedWeeklyofIndia. Translated by Pritish Nandy.
Amrita Pritam for her story TheWeed published in 1978 in TheAerialandOtherStories, United Writers, Calcutta. Translated by Raj Gill.
Penguin Books Canada Ltd. for Nostalgia by Bharati Mukherjee published in Darkness.
Gangadhar Gadgil for his story TheDogthatRaninCircles published in 1961 in ModernMarathiShortStories, Kutub Popular, Bombay.
U.R. Anantha Murthy for his story TheSkyandtheCat published in 1980 in IndianLiterature, Sahitya Akademi, Vol. XXIII Nos. 3 & 4, New Delhi. Translated by D.A. Shankar.
Gopinath Mohanty for his story TheSomersault published in 1979 in TheAntandOtherStories, United Writers, Calcutta. Translated by Sitakant Mahapatra.
The Estate of R.K. Narayan for his story AnotherCommunity published in 1985 in UndertheBanyanTreeandOtherStories, Viking.
Oxford University Press for Companions by Raja Rao published in 1978 in ThePolicemanandthe Rose, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
Jhayu Mani for A Loss ofIdentityby S. Mani Mowni published in 1978 in TamilShortStories, Authors Guild of India, New Delhi. Translated by Albert Franklin.
William Heinemann Publishers for A DevotedSon by Anita Desai published in 1978 in GamesatTwilight.
Jaico Publishing House for TheSnakeCharmerby Chunilal Madia published in 1982 in SelectedStoriesfromGujarat. Translated by Sarla Jag Mohan.
Manoj P. Rege for Savitri by P.S. Rege published in 1968 in IndianLiterature, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Translated by Kumud Mehta.
T.S. Pillai for his story A BlindMansContentment published in 1976 in MalayalamShortStories, Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Trichur. Translated by V. Abdulla.
The Sheep Meadow Press for Ismat Chughtais story TheWeddingShroud published in 1994 in TheQuiltandOtherStories, The Sheep Meadow Press, New York. Translated by Tahira Naqvi.
O.V. Vijayan for his story TheWart.
Bhisham Sahni for his story WeHaveArrivedinAmritsar.
Sunil Gangopadhyay for his story ShahJahanandHisPrivateArmy published in 1986 in Mahfil,TheJournalofSouthAsianLiterature, Vol. XXI No. 1, Chicago. Translated by Phyllis Granoff.
Avinash Dolas for his story TheVictim published in 1985 in IndianLiterature Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, New Delhi. Translated by V.D. Katamble.
Nirmal Verma for his story Deliverance. Translated by Kuldip Singh.
Devanuru Mahadeva for his story Amasa. Translated by A.K. Ramanujan and Manu Shetty.
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