TY - BOOK AU - Desai, Shantinath K., ed. TI - Contemporary Indian short stories SN - 8126018070 U1 - 891.4 PY - 1996/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sahitya Akademi KW - Short stories, Indic (English) KW - India KW - Social life and customs N1 - An evening walk / Bhabendra Nath Saikia (Assamese) -- The guest / Sayed Mustafa Siraj (Bengali) -- Bak Kak and Nono / Ved Rahi (Dogri) -- Hookworm, lamprey, tick, fluke and flea / Gauri Deshpande (English) -- The crowd / Ghanshyam Desai (Gujarati) -- Birds / Nirmal Verma (Hindi) -- Soliloquies of Saugandhi / Vaidehi (Kannada) -- Sunshine / Hari Kishan Kaul (Kashmiri) -- Sumati / Hemacharya (Konkani) -- The heir / Surendra Jha 'Suman' (Maithili) -- Little, little earthquakes / M.T. Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam) -- Water / Y. Ibomcha (Manipuri) -- News story / Rangnath Pathare (Marathi) -- Declaration of a revolution / Purna Rai (Nepali) -- The bed of arrows / Gopinath Mohanty (Oriya) -- The taxi driver / K.S. Duggal (Punjabi) -- Cannibal / Vijai Dan Detha (Rajasthani) -- The bell / Harish Vaswani (Sindhi) -- The house / Indira Parthasarathy (Tamil) -- Ant / Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry (Telugu) -- Retelling / Surendra Parkash (Urdu) ER -