Contemporary Indian Short Stories: Series II by Bhabani Bhattacharya ....This shelf of twenty-two short stories, written by different authors, mainly from the period 1930- 50, represents a cross-section of contemporary Indian short fiction. Twenty
stories are translations from fourteen modern languages of India and two are specimens of Indian creative writing in English.Selected by Sahithya Akademi's Advisory Boards of various languages, these stories provide glimpses into the panorama of Indian life, with its baffling vaiety, its rich contrasts of the simple and the sophisticated, the ancient and the modern.This is the second volume of Sahithya Akademi series of such representative anthologies in English of contemporary Indian short story.
