Tag Archives: Short Stories

This book is a collection of short stories that deal with the trials and tribulations faced by people of this century. It deals with the lifestyle and ideals that the modern Indians choose to live by. The focus is mostly on the relationships that are thriving or breaking up around us as a result of these choices. Nine short stories dealing with different relationships with few characters interconnecting each other.
First things first and for me characters always take the center stage as it is their life and their…

Title: Aerogrammes and Other Stories
Author: Tania James
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 978-8-184-00301-7
Genre: Short Stories
Pages: 180
Source: Publisher
Rating: 5/5
Whenever I am about to read a new collection of stories from someone who is just about trying to step foot in this genre, I get very apprehensive. I love the short-story genre. It is something else. If I could, I would have written a piece in praise of the short story. I just would have so much to say.
With this, I must talk about the short-story…

Title: The Lost Story
Authors: Amit Goyal and Sudhanshu Gupta
Publisher: Grapevine India Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 978-9381841020
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 224
Source: Author via Bookrack.in
Rating: 3.5/5
When I was first told by Bookrack to review, “The Lost Story”, I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to. I mean, I hadn’t heard of the book at all and honestly I could not say much of it based on a synopsis. I needed to read a chapter at least to figure whether or not I wanted to review it. However,…

Book Title: TheNew Collected Short Stories
Author:Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: PanBooks, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.Rating: * ** */5
Ifyou are an avid reader, you know you go through some phases in life when youjust do not have the time or patience to sit through an entire novel or anyelaborate piece of writing. When I was right in the eye of such a period, aprotracted flight journey prompted an emergency visit to the airport bookstore. And, I ended up getting treated to a collection of short stories soindulgingly penned that I had to force…

Title: Urban Shots- Bright LightsEditor: Paritosh UttamPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2012Price INR 195Pages: 204Genre: Contemporary Indian Fiction/Short StoriesRating: 3.5 on 5
 This is the third compendium of short stories I have read under the Urban Shots series, and it is the third time I have experienced overwhelming satisfaction with what I read. I have spent considerable amount of time with these three books in the past month, and not a moment spent with them has gone waste. I am not a reader who sprints through books. I am one who…

Title: Urban Shots- CrossroadsEditor: Ahmed FaiyazPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2012Price INR 195Pages: 217Genre: Contemporary Indian Fiction/Short StoriesRating: 3.5 on 5
Now this is quality stuff. Genuinely. I do not know how many times did I find myself touched and connected and affected by the short stories compiled in this yet another brilliant anthology under the Urban Shots series. I do know, however, that this is one book I will strongly recommend to all book lovers out there, for the 30 stories told by 26 odd authors in this book are…

Title: The Love Collection- Urban ShotsEditor: Sneh ThakurPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2011Pages: 216Price: INR 199Genre: Short stories/Contemporary Indian Fiction
Love is sacred, yet to many lost and caught in this web of society, it remains forbidden. Love is universal, yet to most who devote all their senses to its pursuit, it remains elusive. Love is ethereal, yet it is defeated more often than not by considerations real and pragmatic. Love is love, yet in this one word lies a myriad of emotions ranging from happiness to anger to jealousy to…

Title: The Habit of LoveAuthor: Namita GokhalePublisher: Penguin IndiaISBN: 978-0-143-41772-9Genre: Short StoriesPages: 184Source: PublisherRating: 4/5
The Habit of Love by Namita Gokhale is a collection of thirteen stories that reflect and internalize the lives of women. Of course one cannot generalize anything basis these stories, however yes they provide the necessary framework needed to understand the environment around us. Some women do not belong to the present, some are parts of today and now and some are just wanderers.
Namita Gokhale speaks to you through her characters and stories. She…

Title: Smut: StoriesAuthor: Alan BennettPublisher: Picador USAISBN: 978-1250003164Genre: Literary FictionPages: 152Source: PublisherRating: 4/5
I must admit that while I had known of Alan Bennett (and owned a copy of, “The Uncommon Reader); I hadn’t read anything by him prior to reading, “Smut”, a collection of two short stories. The stories are definitely a tease, but not smutty at all, as the title claims them to be, at least not in this time and age.
Smut consists of two stories, “The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson” and, “The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes”.…

Author: Rajiv Kumar

Publisher: Frog Books

‘Navarasa by Lotus’ tells interlinked stories of a fading movie star; a youth accidentally taking form of a masked vigilante; a mosquito determined to fight human domination; an unmarried couple on the verge of break up; a woman who is terrified of her dream; a school kid struggling to vent his anger; Fate of our society post 2012; Rajiv’s addictions; and Anand’s redemption… The result is a collection of nine stories of different genres, each being a tribute to the rasa: humour, love, disgust,…