Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1 write by Khushwant Singh. This book was released on 2012-06-06. Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well-plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativity flowers and a fresh and imaginative story emerges. This volume is chock-full with such stories, written by authors well known in their regional languages as well as those who have made a name for themselves in English literary circles. Carefully selected by India's literary giant, the late Khushwant Singh, these pieces represent the best of Indian writing from around the country.
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories write by . This book was released on 2001. Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Memories of Madness
Memories of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memories of Madness write by Khushwant Singh. This book was released on 2002-09-11. Memories of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Independence for India, in 1947, came with a price: division on the basis of religion. In the communal riots that followed, hundreds of thousands were killed and millions rendered homeless. And the tragic legacy of Partition haunts the subcontinent even today. Memories of Madness brings together works by three leading writers who witnessed the insanity of those months. Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh’s debut novel, tells the story of a village in Punjab, Mano Majra, where Muslims and Sikhs have co-existed peacefully, till one night in 1947, when a ghost train arrives from across the new border, bearing corpses of butchered refugees. As mistrust grows into hate and the people of Mano Majra lose their humanity, it is left to an outcast, a Sikh dacoit in love with a Muslim girl, to avert another carnage. Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas is a harrowing portrait of a small frontier town in the grip of communal frenzy. Based on the author’s own experience of riots in Rawalpindi, this celebrated novel describes the murder and mayhem triggered off by the discovery of a pig’s carcass outside a mosque. The matchless stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, the greatest short story writer in the Urdu language, round off this collection. In addition to his most famous story, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, the selection includes ten other sketches and stories in which Manto turns his unflinching gaze on history's criminals, victims and unlikely heroes. As moving as they are disturbing, the stories in this volume are of immense relevance in these times, for they constitute a chilling reminder of the consequences of communal politics.
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories write by Khushwant Singh". This book was released on 2001. Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Paradise and Other Stories
Paradise and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise and Other Stories write by Khushwant Singh. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Paradise and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Balzac could not have done better’ —The Financial Express In this sparkling collection of stories, India’s best-known writer addresses some pertinent questions: Why do we believe in miracles? Can a horoscope guarantee the perfect wife? Is the Kamasutra a useful manual for newlyweds? Margaret Bloom arrives in Haridwar from New York to save her soul. But she soon discovers that there are temptations even on the banks of the holy Ganga. Madan Mohan Pandey, amateur astrologer and scholar of ancient Hindu texts, finds to his horror that his doe-like bride is not quite what he had expected. Pious Zora Singh, Pride of the Nation, rumoured to be a chaar sau bees and a womanizer, silences his detractors by earning the Bharat Ratna. Devi Lal makes his peace with a fickle God when his daughter-in-law delivers a son, following secret visits to the Peer Sahib’s tomb. And Vijay Lall, emboldened by his miraculous escape from death, decides to act upon his silent obsession with Karuna Chaudhury, which takes him to a shifty soothsayer behind the Khan Market loo. Khushwant Singh returns to the short story after decades to deliver a truly memorable collection—humorous, provocative, tongue-in-cheek, ribald and even, at times, tender.
