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Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories

Book Title: Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories

Author: Jayant Kaikini

Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini. Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana. Westland. Pages 256. Rs 599

Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories
by Jayant Kaikini. Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana.
Westland. Pages 256. Rs 599

Kannada writer Jayant Kaikini spent two decades in Mumbai before he moved to Bengaluru. These stories of the city are tinged with melancholy but lit with hope. Tejaswini Niranjana has translated the work. Their team won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2018 for ‘No Presents Please’.

Instruments of Torture
by Aparna Sanyal.
HarperCollins. Pages 186. Rs 399

‘The Rack’, ‘The Chastity Belt’, ‘The Iron Maiden’, ‘The Pillory’, ‘The Judas Cradle’… the stories in this anthology derive their names from devices of medieval torture. The people in these stories hold up to the reader the greatest instrument of torture yet: a mirror that looks directly into the subconscious.

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