Blue is like blue
Subtitle: stories
By: Vinod Kumar Shukla ; translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra & Sara Rai
Contributors: Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947- translator; Rāya, Sārā, 1956- translator
Publisher: Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9789353029326; 9789353029333
Subjects: Translations into English; Hindi Short stories; Hindi fiction; Hindi literature
Work titles: Mahavidyalaya
Description: "The stories in Blue Is Like Blue deal with ‘smaller-than-life people’. They live in rented accommodation, often in single rooms, where one electric bulb does for light. There’s a nail to hang clothes from and a wall-to-wall string for the washing. When the clothes are dry, you place the carefully folded shirt under a pillow and lie down to sleep. Money is a concern, but the bazaar is the place to go and spend time in, especially if you have nothing to buy. The fear that you may be overcharged accompanies every transaction, but joy is not entirely absent. Few works of modern Indian literature come alive in English, and fewer still in the way that these stories do in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai’s brilliant translation." --Publisher's website.
Notes: Short stories.

Also issued online.

In English, translated from Hindi.
Table of contents: title: Twenty rupees; title: The burden; title: Fish; title: Man in the blue shirt; title: Piece of gold; title: Room on the tree; title: Spare time of the crowd; title: The man's woman; title: The gathering; title: Shoe ashtray; title: Old veranda; title: College.