About the Book: Day of Reckoning
A wonderful collection of short stories from one of the masters of Indian
writing in English
Even before Indian writing in English became the fashionable thing that it is
today, Nayantara Sahgal was a name to reckon with internationally. What set her
works of fiction apart is the way they always addressed the sociopolitical
milieu of her time and constantly responded to the changes that enveloped India
and the world. In this, her first collection of short stories, one finds a
similar engagement with society and politics in stories that address issues of
religious fanaticism, human rights, violence in our society and