The forty three stories from twenty-one languages anthologised in the book reglect the diversity and complexity of life lived in India.From the violence and mass hysteria of the partition to the suppressed rage and the gnawing self-pity of individuals trapped in broken homes-these stories capture the outer and inner lives of Indian Society.The sacred andf the profane,the elite and subaltern meet in many-layered narratives in these stories,providing us metaphors to visualise ourselves.These stories map an eventful century during which India emerged into a nation.The images gathered here from the haunted interiors of the twentieth century are both disquieting and illuminating.

Indian short stories: 1900-2000

Editor E.V.Ramakrishnan

Sahitya Akademi/New Delhi/India

<p>A significant branch of India's vast literary heritage consists of tales told by mystics through the ages,different from myths and legends.Though taken for granted as a part of the folklore and rarely discussed,their influence on the minds of generations of common people has been only next to that of the epics.Sometimes they hit the nail on the head,sometimes they shock and sometimes they make one laugh at oneself but they invariably enrich one's mind by identifying the complex and intriguing forces-psychological and occult,at work in our lives. This collection,probably the first of it's kind,of a full hundred tales culled from sages through decades of sustained interest by its present author,should prove as revealing as they have proved for centuries past.</p>

tales told by mystics

MANOJ DAS

Kalidasa's status as the major poet and dramatist in classicl Sanskrit literature is unquestioned. Possibly the first translation into English in its entirity, Chandra Rajan fulfills a long-felt need and makes these classics accessible to a much wider audience. Her introduction serves to place the text in their context and suggests ways of looking at them singly and as part of the ouevre. The first volume is devoted to the poems, while the second contains the plays.

The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 2: Plays

Kālidāsa

"If we pass over the question of what the literature should be from the nationalisitc point of view and take alook at Pakistani literature,more specifically Pakistani short stories,and try to understand the background,then a broad picture emerges and it is:the environment and the society that obtained after the partition and that evolved over the past fifty years,was not the same as composite socoiety that existed before the partition.Pakistan has a dominant Muslim majority.So the nature of social interactions was different from that in India. "A more important thing is that just after the Partition the writers and thinkers had to negotiate questions that were specific to the divided country.The writers in India were not faced with such questions as they were inheritors of a historical and literary continuity.If Pakistan were a different nation,then what was it's national and cultural identity?Where could it trace the beginnings?One could certainly trace it from the advent of Muslims in the subcontinent,but how about the eras before that?" The short stories written originally in Urdu,Punjabi,Sindhi,Pushto and Saraiki,and now translated into English-showcased in this anthology engage with the questions mentioned afore in their own ways,articulating a multiplicity of voices and experiences.They chronicle the birth of the Pakistani nation in traumatic circumstances and it's chequered history over the past fifty years,through depicting the "desires and aspirations,fear and horror,pride,shame,helplessness and a thopusand other unnamed feelings" of their protagonists.While doing so,they also depict the immensely varied and rich tapestry of the cultural life in Pakistan.

Short Stories From Pakistan ; Fifty Years of Pakistani Short Stories

Several Authors/Translation by M.Asaduddin

Tales Of Tomorrow

Compiled by Rana Nayar

<p>The novel narrates the story of the Hindu epic Mahabharata mostly using monologue as a literary technique. Several principal characters found in the original Mahabharata reminisce almost their entire lives. Both the setting and the context for the reminiscence is the onset of the Kurukshetra War. Parva is acknowledged to be S.L.Bhyrappa's greatest work.Non-Kannadigas who have read it in it's Hindi and Marathi translations consider it one of the masterpieces of modern Indian literature.It is a transformation of an ancient legend into a modern novel.In this process,it has gained rational credibility and a human perspective.The main incident,the Bharata war,symbolic of the birthpangs of a new world-order,depicts a heroic but vain effort to arrest the disintegration and continue the prevailing order.It is viewed from the stand points of the partisan participants and judged with reference to the objective understanding of Krishna.Narration,dialogue, monologue and comment all are employed for it's presentation.Shot through with irony,pity and understanding objectivity,the novel ends with the true tragic vision of faith in life and hope for mankind. Parva has been translated into the following major Indian languages; Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu apart from English. The novel narrates the story of the Hindu epic Mahabharata mostly using monologue as a literary technique. Several principal characters found in the original Mahabharata reminisce almost their entire lives. Both the setting and the context for the reminiscence is the onset of the Kurukshetra War.</p>

Parva: A tale of war, Peace, Love, Death, God, and Man

S. L. Bhyrappa/Tr.K.Raghavendra Rao

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