About the Book: The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told
The twenty-five stories in The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told represent the
finest short fiction in Hindi literature. Selected and translated by editor,
writer, and translator Poonam Saxena, and ranging from early literary masters of
the form such as Premchand, Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, Bhisham Sahni,
Harishankar Parsai, Mannu Bhandari, and Shivani to contemporary greats such as
Asghar Wajahat, Uday Prakash, Sara Rai, and others, the collection has stories
of darkness, hope, triumph, anger, and irony.
In Premchands 'The Thakurs Well, 'low-caste Gangi struggles to find drinking
water for her ill husband; in 'The Times Have Changed