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The rich and varied body of writing in the Indian languages has grown immenasurably in the last hundred yeards. This collection of short stories brings together some pernnial favourites from this vast treasure trve, written by acknowledged masters of the art and sensitively translated. The twenty-three stories included here deal with themes central to modern India:caste, gender politics and emerging changes in the traditonal family structure, These are striking vignettes from all parts of te country, evocative of different lifestyles, yet reflective of common problems and issues with which we can all idnetify.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Oct/2000
ISBN: 9780140291742
Length : 320 Pages
MRP : ₹399.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
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Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Oct/2000
ISBN: 9789351187769
Length : 320 Pages
MRP : ₹399.00
The rich and varied body of writing in the Indian languages has grown immenasurably in the last hundred yeards. This collection of short stories brings together some pernnial favourites from this vast treasure trve, written by acknowledged masters of the art and sensitively translated. The twenty-three stories included here deal with themes central to modern India:caste, gender politics and emerging changes in the traditonal family structure, These are striking vignettes from all parts of te country, evocative of different lifestyles, yet reflective of common problems and issues with which we can all idnetify.
Indira Srinivasan, educated in Delhi, Waltair, Chennai and Plymouth, is an English teacher with twenty years of teaching experience at the high school level. A resource person for teacher training programmers all over India, she is involved in the production of training materials. She is associated with the British Council's Business English programs and is a trainer in business English courses from various corporate houses in Chennai. She is the author of several text books, including the Connect series, and is presently compiling another English textbook. She is married and lives in Chennai. Chetna Bhatt, educated in Chandigarh, Delhi and Plymouth, has been teaching English in a public school in Delhi for nearly twenty years. She has conducted teacher training workshops all over India for English teacher at the secondary school level and is a resource person for CBSE and the British Council. She is also associated with the British Council as trainer for the Business English Programs and is a course writer for Indira Gandhi National Open University. She is the author of Interactions in English and several other English textbooks for high school students. She is married and lives in Delhi.