Truth tales
Subtitle: contemporary stories by women writers of India
By: edited by Kali for Women ; introduction by Meena Alexander.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York; Distributed by Talman Co.
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Short stories, Indic -- Translations into English.; Women -- India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.; Indic fiction -- Women authors.; Indic fiction -- 20th century.
Notes: "First published in India in 1986"--P. [4] of cover.
Short stories, six of them translated from Indian languages.
Table of contents: title: The wet nurse / Mahasveta Devi; title: Smoke / Ila Mehta; title: The dolls / Suniti Aphale; title: Tragedy, in a minor key / Mrinal Pande; title: Muniyakka / Lakshmi Kannan; title: Tiny's granny / Ismat Chughtai; title: Midnight soldiers / Vishwapriya Iyengar.