Contemporary short stories, translated into English from various Indic languages.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Mushirul Hasan, M. Asaduddin -- Mahesh [Bangla] -- Sarat Chandra Chatterjee -- The Holy Judges [Hindi] -- Premchand -- The Temple and the Mosque [Hindi] -- Premchand -- The Tale of a Muslim Woman [Bangla] -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Magic Strings [Malayalam] -- Vaikom Muhammed Basheer -- Sacred Duty [Urdu] -- Ismat Chughtai -- Kafir [Urdu] -- Ismat Chughtai -- Stony-hearted [Urdu] -- Ashfaq Ahmad -- Asylum [Urdu] -- Joginder Paul -- Partition [Hindi] -- Swayam Prakash -- The City of Death [Hindi] -- Amarkant -- 'Try to Understand Me, Sir!' [Gujarati] -- Ramesh R. Dave -- Mumbai [Malayalam] -- N.S. Madhavan -- The Vettamangalam Elephant [Tamil] -- Thoppil Mohamed Meeran -- Consecrated Brick [Urdu -- Husainul Haq -- The Pendulum [Bangla] -- Jayanta De -- Metamorphosis [Gujarati] -- Mohan Parmar -- The Infidel Parrot [Hindi] -- Punni Singh: -- Guest is God [Hindi] -- Abdul Bismitah -- A Home for the Peeroos [Telugu] -- KethuViswanatha Reddy -- Dervish [Urdu] -- Qurratulain Hyder -- Kabadi [Malayalam] -- In Search of Ismail Sheikh [Assamese] -- Homen Borgohain -- Father and Son [Tamil] -- Ashokamitran -- Nombu [Kannada] -- Fakir Muhammed Katpadi -- A!efa [Bangla] -- haukat Osman -- Deliverance [Telugu] -- Nelluri Kesavaswamy -- Love Across the Salt Desert [English] -- K. N. Daruwalla -- The Library Girl [English] -- Vishwapriya L. Iyengar -- Photographs [English] -- Shama Futehally -- Does Anyone Have the Strength? [Kashmiri] -- Akhtar Mohiuddin -- Where Has My Gulla Gone? [Hindi] -- Padma Sachdev -- Dawat [Telugu] -- Mohammed Khadeer Babu -- Haram [Telugu] -- Khaja -- About the Translators -- Glossary.