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  1. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Preceded by. The Dark Room. Followed by. The English Teacher. Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India.

  2. Cradle Tales of Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    Longmans. Published in English. 1907. Pages. 332 pages (paperback) ISBN. 81-85301-93-X. Cradle Tales of Hinduism (1907) is a collection of stories by Sister Nivedita. [1] It is an introduction to Hindu mythology; the stories come from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and other Hindu sources and are presented as they were told in Indian nurseries.

  3. Idgah (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story appears in Indian textbooks, and its adaptions also appear in moral education books such as The Joy of Living. [5] The story has been adapted into several plays and other performances. Asi-Te-Karave Yied (2008) is a Kashmiri adaption of the story by Shehjar Children's Theatre Group, Srinagar. [6]

  4. Vetala Panchavimshati - Wikipedia

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    The children's Chandamama, featured a serial story titled New Tales of Vikram and Betal for many years. As the title suggests, the original premise of the story is maintained, as new stories are told by Vetala to King Vikrama. In the novel, Alif the Unseen, a character named Vikrama the Vampire appears as a jinn. He tells how thousands of years ...

  5. The Woman on Platform 8 - Wikipedia

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    Country. India. Publication. Published in. The Illustrated Weekly of India. The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. [1][2] It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. [3]

  6. List of Vetala Tales - Wikipedia

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    The power and boons are attributed to different sources in different versions, e.g. a result of the rite itself (Sivadasa), gandharvas (Sivadasa), Indra (Lāl), Shiva (Somadeva), a goddess (Jambhaladatta). An abbreviated version of "Yogi and Vetala" and the Conclusion is given as the 31st of the Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya ...

  7. Ravuri Bharadhwaja - Wikipedia

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    Children. 5 ( 4 sons and 1 daughter) Rāvūri Bharadvāja (1927 – 18 October 2013) was a Jnanpith award winning Telugu novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic. [2] He wrote 37 collections of short stories, seventeen novels, four play-lets, and five radio plays. He also contributed profusely to children's literature.

  8. The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories - Wikipedia

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    The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2015; ISBN 9789385288647) is a collection of short stories.The second book by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, it was nominated for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2016 [1] and included by Frontline (magazine) in August 2022 in a list of 25 books “that light up the path to understanding post-Independence Indian literature.” [2] As of ...