Birthday Deathday and Other Stories
Birthday Deathday and Other Stories is a 1985 collection of twelve short stories by Padma Perera, written and published from 1974 onwards. Eight provide vignettes of upper-class family life in India, while four others deal with cultural displacement and exile in North America. Publication history. Individual stories first appeared in "The New Yorker" (The Schoolmaster, Too Late For Anger, Dr. Salaam, Mauna, and Afternoon Of The House), "Helicon Nine" (Spaces Of Decision), "The Southern Review", (Birthday Deathday, and Eknath (Pilgrimage)), and "The Illustrated Weekly of India" (Appa-mam, and Monologue For Foreigners). Nine stories  (Birthday Deathday, The Schoolmaster, Letter, Appa-mam, Monologue For Foreigners, Too Late For Anger, Eknath's Pilgrimage, Dr. Salaam, and Mauna) were published in "Dr. Salaam & Other Stories Of India", 1978, USA, Capra Press , with the twelve stories being published as "Birthday Deathday and Other Stories", 1985, England, The Women's Press . Reception. "Birthday Deathday" has been reviewed by the "New Statesman", "World Literature Today", and "Dr. Salaam" by the "Library Journal".