Cheetiyan (Hindi) Sanatan Mishra 2018 Kindle edition This is a short story about a doctor who struggles against economic hardships to complete his education and become a successful practitioner. I picked it up because of the name- Cheetiyan: Unke liye jinhe lagta hai wo reng rahe hain. This unusual title was an attraction but I…
The Mad Tibetan: Stories from Then and Now Deepti Naval 2011 Manjul pp. 169 The Mad Tibetan is a collection of short stories by Deepti Naval. I thought these are all fiction based but some of the stories seem based on Naval’s own life. The sincerity in writing the stories seems to be the same…
Shartein Lagoo Divya Prakash Dubey 2017 Wesland/Hind Yugm pp. 144 Shartein Lagoo is a collection of short stories by Divya Prakash Dubey. I discovered his writing this year and have managed to finish the three books by him that I could lay my hands on. I have already pre booked his next release. I think…
Masala Chai Divya Prakash Dubey 2014 Hind Yugm pp. 206 Masala Chai is a collection of short stories by Divya Prakash Dubey. It is exactly what the introduction claims it to be, stories that you share with your friends over a cup of tea. Most stories are simple, based on everyday occurrences that characterise life…
Namak Swadanusar Nikhil Sachan 2017 Westland pp. 160 Namak Swadanusar is a collection of short stories that revolve around the most common theme that I read : Life. In the initial few stories, I was wondering why I picked up this book. I know why I picked it up: I was craving Hindi. It is…
Navarasa Vinaya Patil 2018 Half Baked Beans pp. 98 Navarasa by Vinaya Patil is a collection of short stories. As the title suggests, the stories depict the nine moods. A brief anecdotal story precedes each short story, sort of serving as a prologue. Each prologue is a super short story in itself though. I found…
Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense NovelsStephen Leacock1920Kindle editionGeneral Books (2010) It takes a lot of effort to reach an author like Leacock. In my quest to meet the Extraordinary Reading Challenge by The Curious Reader, I was to read something funny. Now, heavens alone know why, but we are constantly fed with satire in…
The Legend of Lakshmi PrasadTwinkle Khanna2016Juggernautpp. 233The book is a collection of four stories, each one completely different from the other. The first and the last focus on social issues and talk about the struggles of people who choose to tread the difficult path of starting a revolution. The last one, The Sanitary Man from…
A Wasted Hour Jeffrey Archer 2017 (ebook edition) Pan A Wasted Hour is part of a series of short stories to be published. A quick read, the short story is about a young woman who aspires to be a writer and finds stories in the people she meets while hitchhiking to and from the…
The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonF. Scott Fitzgerald1922 (original)pp. 49BN PublishingFitzgerald’s work is a brief description of the life of a man who is reverse aging. Born as a seventy year old, he lives his life in reverse. The struggles with family, education, and society at large have been presented. A full novel would have…
