1) The Hunger of Stones - Rabindranath Tagore (Translated from the Bengali by Amitav Ghosh); 2)The Shroud - Munshi Premchand (Translated from the Hindi by Arshia Sattar); 3) A Horse and Two Goats - R.K. Narayan; 4) A Life - Buddhadeva Bose (Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha); 5) Toba Tek Singh - Saadat Hasan Manto (Translated from the Urdu by Khushwant Singh); 6) The Flood - Thakazhi S. Pillai (Translated from the Malayalam by O.V. Usha); 7) The Blue Light - Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (Translated from the Malayalam by O.V. Usha); 8) The Somersault - Gopinath Mohanty (Translated from the Oriya by Sitakant Mahapatra); 9) Portrait of a Lady - Khushwant Singh; 10) Quilt 2 - Ismat Chughtai (Translated from the Hindi by Rakhshanda Jalil); 11) Stench of Kerosene – Amrita Pritam (Translated from the Punjabi by Khushwant Singh); 12) Gold from the Grave - Anna Bhau Sathe (Translated from the Marathi by Vernon Gonsalves); 13) The Man Who Saw God - D.B.G. Tilak (Translated from the Telugu by Ranga Rao); 14) Inspector Matadeen on the Moon - Harishankar Parsai (Translated from the Hindi by C.M. Naim); 15) Draupadi - Mahasweta Devi (Translated from the Bengali by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak); 16) Countless Hitlers - Vijaydan Detha (Translated from the Rajasthani by Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir); 17) Mirror of Illusion - Nirmal Verma (Translated from the Hindi by Geeta Kapur); 18) Reflowering - Sundara Ramaswamy (Translated from the Tamil by S. Krishnan); 19) Mouni - U.R. Ananthamurthy (Translated from the Kannada by H. Y. Sharada Prasad); 20) Old Cypress - Nisha da Cunha; 21) The Blue Umbrella - Ruskin Bond 3; 22) Crossing the Ravi – Gulzar ( Translated from the Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil; 23) Games at Twilight - Anita Desai; 24) A Revolt of the Gods - Vilas Sarang (Translated from the Marathi by the author); 25) In a Forest, a Deer – Ambai (Translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom); 26) Bhaskara Pattelar and My Life - Paul Zacharia (Translated from the Malayalam by Gita Krishnankutty); 27) Tar Arrives - Devanoora Mahadeva (Translated from the Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan and Manu Shetty); 28) Last in First Out - Irwin Allan Sealy); 29) The Elephant and the Tragopan - Vikram Seth; 30) Feast - Manjula Padmanabhan; 31) Nursing God’s Countries - Githa Hariharan; 32) Proposed for Condemnation - Cyrus Mistry; 33) Trying to Discover India - Shashi Tharoor; 34) Desolation - Upamanyu Chatterjee; 35) Kama - Vikram Chandra; 36) Wild Things - Anjum Hasan; 37) Stolen - Amrita Narayan; 38) The Gravestone - Shahnaz Bashir; 39) Elephant at Sea - Kanishk Tharoor

The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do. The thirtynine short stories in this book will blow you away. Starting with a ghoststory by Rabindranath Tagore, India's most famous writer and ending with a fable by Kanishk Tharoor, a writer who has come of age in the twenty first century,