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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. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]
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 ...
The Story of the Blue Jackal is one story in the Panchatantra. One evening when it was dark, a hungry jackal went in search of food in a large village close to his home in the jungle. The local dogs didn't like Jackals and chased him away so that they could make their owners proud by killing a beastly jackal.
List of works by Rabindranath Tagore. The Padma, the houseboat (" ") of the Tagore family, at Shilaidaha Kuthibadi, where Tagore wrote many of his short stories and other works. Below is a chronological list of works by Rabindranath Tagore between 1877 and 1941. Tagore wrote most of his short stories, novels, drama, poems and songs in Bengali ...
Shatranj ke Khiladi. (Redirected from Shatranj ke khiladi) Shatranj Ke Khilari (lit. 'The Chess Players') is a 1924 Hindi short-story written by Munshi Premchand. [1] Premchand also made the Urdu version titled "Shatranj ki bazi".
Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side ...
1933. " Lottery " ( Hindi: लॉटरी, Urdu: لاٹری) is a Hindustani short story. It was written by Indian author Premchand. [1] The story is told in narrative form from the perspective of an unnamed school teacher. [2] The story has been adapted into play format, with theatrical performances presented by Lalit Parimoo 's Natsamaj ...
Karma (short story) "Karma" is a short story written by Indian writer Khushwant Singh. It was originally published in 1989 in Singh's The Collected Stories. "Karma" is about an Oxford -educated Indian man who adopts upper-class English culture and lifestyle only to be rejected by British colonial officers.