मैं धृतराष्ट्र नहीं, बस यूँ ही अंधा होने का ढोंग रचा रहा हूँ. संजय एक कोने में बैठा मन कुरुक्षेत्र का दृश्य देख रहा है. परंतु वह कुछ भी नहीं बोल रहा… या मैंने उसको चुप रहने की हिदायत दे रखी है. यह दृश्य मैं नहीं सुन सकता…. संजय के मन की आंखें देख सकती [...]

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‘गुनाह बहुत लुभावना होता है और बदला बहुत बहरूपिया…’ फादर की आवाज़ आ रही थी … डूबती …. टूटती …. जैसे पहाड़ी नदी में लट्ठे बहते आते हैं …. ‘पटेल के सन से झगड़ा नहीं करना है’ वह लभगभ चीख़ी थी, उसकी आँखों में मनचाहा पाने का आश्चर्य था. यू आर रियली ए डेविल. लगभग [...]

This happened back when I was dirt poor.  I was paying nine rupees a month for a room that didn’t have water or electricity.  The building was horrific.  Gnats fell from the ceiling in the thousands, and rats were everywhere, bigger than any I’ve ever seen, so big that cats were scared of them.
There was [...]

It was the beginning of the racing season in Pune when Aziz wrote from Peshawar, “I’m sending Janaki, an acquaintance of mine.  Get her into a film company in Pune or Bombay.  You know enough people.  I hope it won’t be too difficult for you.”
It wasn’t a question of being difficult, but the problem was [...]

1920 के दशक में एक बीस साला घुमक्कड़, जहाज पर कोयला भरने का काम कर रहा स्वीडी नौजवान भारत आया और ठीक अपने बीसवें जन्मदिन पर उसने अपना जहाज छोड़ दिया, उसके ठीक पचास साल बाद इस आवारागर्द, हैरी मार्टिनसन को साहित्य का नोबेल पुरस्कार मिला – यह सब तथ्य है; मार्टिनसन से मिलता जुलता और उनकी ही किताबों के एक किरदार के नाम वाला एक व्यक्ति मार्टिन टोमासन 1924 में भारत आता है जहाँ बम्बई बंदरगाह पर एक धोबिन पुष्पी के साथ उसका अनूठा संबंध शुरू होता है – यह लार्श एंडरसन के उपन्यास वायेन टिल गोंडवाना का कथ्य हैः एक वास्तविक लेखक के जीवन को एक मुक्त फैंटेसी में बदलते खुद उसी की आविष्ट लिरिकल शैली में लिखे गये इस असाधारण स्वीडी उपन्यास का एक अंश (तेजी ग्रोवर के सौजन्य से) मारलेन डेलार्जी के अंग्रेजी अनुवाद में.

In the 1920s, Swedish writer Harry Martinson came to India as a runaway steamship stoker, abandoning his ship in Bombay just at the time of his 20th birthday, and exactly 50 years from there on he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature – that’s fact. A person curiously resembling Martinson and bearing a name from his books, Martin Tomasson, comes to India in 1924 and there begins his amazing relationship with an Indian washerwoman on the port of Bombay – this is Lars Andersson’s novel Vägen till Gondwana that turns a ‘real’ author’s life into a free-wheeling fantasy, imitating his own haunting, lyrical idiom. We thank Teji Grover for making an excerpt of this extraordinary piece of fiction available to us, in Marlaine Delargy’s English translation.

An excerpt from Prabhat Tripathi’s new, unpublished novel.

प्रभात त्रिपाठी के नये, अप्रकाशित उपन्यास का एक अंश

A Hindi story by Bhootnath.

भूतनाथ की हिंदी कहानी.

श्रीमोयी नंदिनी घोष की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

A story in English by Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh.

A story in Hindi by Anwar Suhail.

अनवर सुहैल की हिंदी कहानी.

Shamimuddin Ansari’s Hindi story.

शमीमुद्दीन अंसारी की हिंदी कहानी.

“This fellow seems to be a mischievous one. Though his father and mother were such innocents, look how this donkey born to them has grown to be such a nuisance.” Even as Madathi said this with a great deal of anger, Muthurathnam went further, “The boys from that family are all like this. The others [...]

शरथ कुमारराजू की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

A story in English by Sharath Komarraju.

अप्पादुरई मुत्तुलिंगम की तमिल कहानी, पद्मा नारायणन के अंग्रेजी अनुवाद में.

Tamil short story by Sri Lankan writer Appadurai Muttulingam, in English translation by Padma Narayanan.

यान हेनरिक स्वाह्न के स्वीडी उपन्यास “मनोलिस मोपेड्स” के अंश, लेखक के अनुवाद में.

Excerpt from Jan Henrik Swahn’s novel “Manolis’ Mopeds”, translated from the original Swedish by the author.

जयप्रकाश सत्यमूर्ति की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

English story by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy.

Hindi story by Bhootnath.

भूतनाथ की हिंदी कहानी.

Hindi story by Gaurav Solanki.

गौरव सोलंकी की हिंदी कहानी.

अश्विन रघु की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

English story by Ashwin Raghu.

Five Grains Of Sugar: Manav Kaul
I can sort-of-smile these days
I can sort-of-laugh as well
I have learned to stay alive.
I see things as they seem these days
What I cannot see does not exist
It matters not to me these days.
I am the neutral middle
The road that leaves home every day and returns
Nothing moves me, these days.
Like tongue-taste [...]

जिसमें, यह शीर्षक जिन विलक्षण रहस्योद्घाटनों के बारे में बताता है,
अगर उनका संक्षेप किया जाय, तो यह शीर्षक, चलन के विपरीत,
उतना ही लम्बा होगा जितना कि यह अध्याय है।
हमने अपने आपको फफूँदियाई पुस्तकों जैसी गंध से भरे एक ऐसे कक्ष की देहलीज पर खड़े पाया जो अपने आकार-प्रकार में अन्य तीनों सप्तभुजीय अन्ध [...]

An excerpt from Jyotsna Milan’s Hindi novel.

ज्योत्सना मिलन के नये, अप्रकाशित उपन्यास का एक अंश.

प्रवीणसिंह चावड़ा की गुजराती कहानी, मीरा देसाई के अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद में.

Pravinsinh Chavda’s Gujarati story in Mira Desai’s English translation.

Ashok Pande’s “tall-tale” in Hindi.

अशोक पांडे की एक ‘गप्प’, हिन्दी में.

मीराबेन की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

Story in English by Miraben.

A short story in Hindi by Varun.

वरुण की हिंदी कहानी.

रिनचिन की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

A story in English by Rinchin.

Hindi story by Geet Chaturvedi.

गीत चतुर्वेदी की हिंदी कहानी.

प्रवीणसिंह चावड़ा की गुजराती कहानी मीरा देसी कृत अंग्रेजी अनुवाद में.

Pravinsinh Chavda’s Gujarati story, in English translation by Mira Desai.

प्रीता समरासन की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

A story in English by Preeta Samarasan.

People continued to crowd into the large drawing room. More chairs had to be brought in to accommodate the continuous flow of visitors. Most of them had come more out of sheer curiosity than real concern.
Antara sat in silence deliberately hiding her eyes from the probing stares. No one dared to question her today. She [...]

निताशा कॉल की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

A story, in English, by Nitasha Kaul.

“Hidden Fires” – A monologue by Manjula Padmanabhan, in Hindi translation by Premchand Gandhi and in the original English.

मंजुला पद्मनाभन कृत मोनोलोग, मूल अंग्रेजी एवं प्रेमचंद गाँधी के हिंदी अनुवाद में.

गुलज़ार की कहानी, मूल हिन्दुस्तानी में एवं सुकृता पाल कुमार कृत अंग्रेजी अनुवाद में.

A story by Gulzar in the original Hindustani and in Sukrita Paul Kumar’s English translation.

एनी ज़ैदी कृत अंग्रेजी फिक्शन.

English fiction, by Annie Zaidi.

One day my friend Badri came over to my place. We’d been at school together and I hadn’t seen him for a long time. He looked rather shabby, his hair gone grey. His white shirt was muddy and there was a thick layer of dust on his shoes – God knew where he’d been. I [...]

The letter, awaited with such anxiety, reached them at last. Okon found the plain white envelope just inside the front door, lying innocently on the polished wooden floor as though it was an everyday missive, an invitation to a flower-show, perhaps, or a letter from a friend in the city.
The night-chowkidars were questioned. They knew [...]

My Deuta never wrote to me before. Or, precisely, Indian fathers usually don’t write letters to their sons. I don’t know if Manu made that law, as he made many laws for women. Our Jethai followed some of Manu’s laws carefully. She always wore white. Never stepped on the ground with bare feet during her [...]

The special train left Amritsar at two in the afternoon and reached Mughalpura eight hours later. Many of the passengers were killed on the way, many were injured and a few were missing.
When Sirajuddin opened his eyes the next morning, he found himself lying on the cold ground of a refugee camp. There was a [...]

They had returned to Amritsar from Lahore after seven-and-a-half years. The hockey match was only an excuse; they were more keen to see the houses and the bazaars, which they had known seven-and-a-half years ago and which now belonged to the strangers. Groups of Muslims could be seen strolling down every street of the city. [...]

Just as I’m about to give up pacing and go back and sit down, I see Mother – or her ghost – right in front of me… oblivious of everything… walking toward me without even seeing me. Maybe she’s sleepwalking, looking for me in a dream. If I step to one side, she’ll stagger by. [...]

How much does an official box measure? It’s best not measured! The size of anything official is deceptive. Basket, casket, box. Dali, peti dabba. Denoting bribes and amounts! This box containing the son fits no idiom, what dimension then should be suggested for its size? Big enough to hold a fistful of ash? Or as [...]

रमेश चन्द्र द्विवेदी की हिन्दी कहानी मूल एवं राहुल सोनी कृत अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद में. तीस वर्षों तक फ़िराक़ गोरखपुरी के साहित्यिक सचिव रहे द्विवेदी की इस कहानी में ख़ुद फ़िराक़ के अलावा प्रेमचंद और मजनूँ भी किरदार हैं.

A story by Ramesh Chandra Dwivedi, who was Firaq’s ‘Literary Secretary’ for 30 years, in the original Hindi and in English translation by Rahul Soni. In this story, Firaq himself appears as a character along with Premchand and Majnoon.

प्रिया सरुक्कई छाबरिया की अंग्रेज़ी कहानी

A short story in English by Priya Sarukkai Chabria.

A short story in Hindi by Prabhat Ranjan.

प्रभात रंजन की हिन्दी कहानी.

A short story in Hindi by Sanjay Singh.

संजय सिंह की हिन्दी कहानी.

रवीन्द्रनाथ ठाकुर की बांग्ला कहानी एकरात्रि (1892) अरूणाभ सिन्हा के अंग्रेजी अनुवाद में.

Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Ekratri (1892) in English translation by Arunava Sinha.

मित्रा फूकन की अंग्रेजी कहानी.

A short story in English by Mitra Phukan.

A short story in Hindi by Shubhasish Chakraborty.

शुभाशीष चक्रवर्ती की हिन्दी कहानी.

A short story in Hindi by Varun.

वरुण की हिन्दी कहानी.