Contemporary Indian short stories
By: [selected by the Sahitya Akademi's advisory boards of various languages]
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788126015894
Copyright date: 1959
Subjects: Indic Short stories; Translations into English; Indic fiction; Fiction; Social life and customs
Notes: Contains 18 short stories translated from 18 modern Indian languages, and one originally written in English.

First pub. 1959.

Includes brief biographical sketches of the authors.
Table of contents: title: The jasmine bower  -- Saurabh Kumar Chaliha -- (Assamese); title: Primeval  -- Manik Bandopadhyay -- (Bengali); title: Masahni  -- B.P. Seth -- (Dogri); title: The accompanist  -- Anita Desai -- (English); title: The patch  -- Suresh Joshi -- (Gujarati); title: The flunkey  -- Gyan Ranjan -- (Hindi); title: --And she has left behind her  -- Shanti Nath Desai -- (Kannada); title: Some poses, some snaps  -- Bashir Akhtar -- (Kashmiri); title: Waiting for death  -- Damodar Mauzo -- (Konkari); title: On the river bank  -- S.K. Pottekkat -- (Malayalam); title: Tune  -- M.K. Binodini Devi -- (Manipuri); title: The wan moon  -- Gangadhar Gadgil -- (Marathi); title: Death of an Indian  -- Kishori Charan Das -- (Oriya); title: The silken chain  -- Mahinder Singh Joshi -- (Punjabi); title: Waiting  -- Nrisinha Rajpurohit -- (Rajasthani); title: The riding fate  -- Ishwar Chander -- (Sindhi); title: Stoops a superstar  -- Naa. Parthasarathy -- (Tamil); title: Thy will be done  -- R.S. Sudarshanam -- (Telugu); title: Confessions of St. Flora of Georgia -- Quarratulain Hyder-- (Urdu).