Katha Prize Stories

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The True Voices of IndiaKatha Prize Stories is a prestigious series of annual anthologies brought out by Katha, India s foremost publisher of Indian language fiction in English translation. These volumes, thirteen of which have been brought out so far from 1991 to 2004, carry the best of contemporary Indian short fiction published every year in reputed journals across the country. Katha prize stories are selected by a panel of eminent writers/critics in the respective languages, which are rendered carefully into English by outstanding translators. Each of these stories is edited by experts so that the excitement of the original is kept in the translated version. Katha prize-winning stories reflect the fast changing pattern of Indian rural as well as urban life and provide deep insight into Indian society at different levels and in different regions while also illuminating the inner life of their characters. Here is one series of Indian short fiction that is certain to make you aware of what existence in India means today, with all its turbulence, pathos, excitement, tenderness, indignation, fast-changing relationships and diverse tones, moods, hues and dimensions.