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The story begins on Eid morning, as Hamid sets out for the Eidgah with other boys from the village. Hamid is notably impoverished next to his friends, poorly dressed and famished-looking, and has only three paise as Eidi for the festival. The other boys spend their pocket money on rides, candies, and beautiful clay toys, and tease Hamid when he ...
7813056. 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 ...
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]
The Blue Umbrella. The Blue Umbrella is a 1980 Indian novel written by Ruskin Bond. [1] It was adapted into 2005 Hindi film by the same name, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which later won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film. [2] In 2012, the novel was adapted into a comic by Amar Chitra Katha publications, titled, The Blue Umbrella ...
an illustration of a variant of the tale. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal is a popular Indian folklore with a long history and many variants. The earliest record of the folklore was included in the Panchatantra, which dates the story between 200 BCE and 300 CE. Mary Frere included a version in her 1868 collection of Indian folktales, Old ...
Amar Goswami (1945–2012), Hindi author and journalist. Amir Khusro (1253–1325 AD), author of pahelis and mukris in the "Hindavi" dialect. Acharya Ramlochan Saran (1889–1971), author, grammarian and publisher. Abid Surti (1935–), author. Acharya Chatursen Shastri (1891–1960) Amrita Pritam (1919–2005) Asghar Wajahat (1946-) Hindi ...
Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar; 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. [2][3] She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya ...
Gadul Singh Lama, popularly known as Sanu Lama, is an Indian fiction writer, poet and translator of Nepali literature.He was an engineer by profession, he has published three short story anthologies and his stories have been translated into English, Hindi, Urdu, Assamese and Oriya languages. [1] He is a recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award (1993 ...