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Reviews of Indian short stories written in English. Listed alphabetically by book title.

The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories by Rochelle Potker – Shana Susan Ninan, Jan 2014

Artists of Disappearance by Anita Desai – Jai Arjun Singh, Aug 2011

Best Asian Short Stories of 2017 Edited by Monideepa Sahu –  Neil Leadbeater, Anubha Yadav, Zahra Somani, Richa Bhattarai, Melanie Ho, Mayeesha Azhar, Mitali Chakravarty, Mudhulika Liddle, Kanishk Singh, Kumar Sharma

Beyond Diamond Rings by Kusum Choppra – Cedar Books,  New Delhi   

Beyond The Rainbow by Murli Melwani – Black-and White Fountain, Pune, 2020

Boats on Land by Janice Pariat – Manasi Subramaniam, 2013

Book of Common Signs by Ashok Srinivasan – Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2014

Breasts and Other Afflictions of Women by RK Biswas – Mythily Ramachandran, 2015  

Breathless in Bombay by Murzban F Shroff – Multiple reviewers  

Cafe Latte by Amit Shankar – Lekha Sinha

Cast Off and Other Stories by Sucharita Dutta-Asane’s – Shikhandin  NEW

Crossed & Knotted by Fourteen Authors – Arvind Passey,  Lopa Banerjee, Wingedpost, Richa Badola, Niriwrites, 2015  

Dad and the Salesman by Bikika Laoo Tariang – Murli Melwani, 2008

Difficult Pleasures by Anjum Hasan – Shaily Sahay

Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy – Jeanne E. Frederiksen, Feb 2015  

Doppelganger Short Stories and Paltan Tales by Madhavi S. Mahadevan – Revathi Sivakumar and Cheryl D’Couto, 2015  

The Family Secret and Other Stories By Bijoya Sawian – Sudipta Bhattacharjee, Mashu Mehrotra, 2014

A Full Night’s Thievery by Mitra Phukan – Murli Melwani, Payal Jain, Saikat Niyogi, Bibhash Choudhury, Dipanker Mukherjee 2017 

The  Fuss About Queens and Other Stories by Darius Cooper – Charanjeet Kaur and Saleem Peeradina 2015  

Going Home in the Rain and Other Stories by Monideepa Sahu – R.K. Biswas, Kitaab International Pte Ltd., Singapore 2016 

Good  Indian Girls by Ranbir Singh Sidhu – Valerie Striver 

The Gourd Seller and Other Stories by Abha Iyengar – Soumya Mukerji, 2015   

The House of Twinning Roses by Nabina Das – Ananya S Guha and Daya Bhat, September 2014

I Am An Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran  – Jai Arjun Singh, March 2013

Immoderate Men by Shikandin – Aditya Sudarshan and Anantika Mehra  

The Incubation Chamber by Vandana Kumari Jena – Champak Chatterji, 2014

India Unlimited-Stories from a Nation Caught Between Hype and Hope by Kulpreet Yadav – Shashank Tiwary and Others

Islands, A House in Ranikhet, The Minister for Permanent Unrest and Other Stories by Keki N.Daruwalla – Multiple Reviewers, 2014, 2003, 1996 

Kafka in Ayodhya and The Singapore Decalogue by Zafar Anjum – Kitaab, Singapore, 2016 and Red Wheelbarrow Books. Singapore 2012 

Kéérook and Other Stories from North East India by Mohonto Panging – Review from News Reports

Legend of Lakshmi Prasad by Twinkle Khanna – Juggernaut, New Delhi, 2017   

Laburnum for my Head by Temsula Ao – Kamaldeep Kaur

Ladders against the Sky by Murli Melwani – Mitra Phukan, Saaz Aggarwal, Kusum Choppra, Sandeep Sinha, U Subramaniam, Maina Saikia  

The Legends of Pensam by Mamang Dai – G S P Rao, Herbert W. Trevor Syiem and others

Life, Odds and Ends by Anvita Bajpai – Raja Subramanian, LiFi Publications, New Delhi , 2014  

Like Smoke by Paro Anand – Manju Subhash Chandran, Penguin, New Delhi, 2016  

Lost Men by Rajorshi Chakraborti – Jai Arjun Singh, March 2013

Love Stories by Annie Zaidi – Jai Arjun Singh, Dec 2012

Luck by Dhruba Hazarika – Jai Arjun Singh, Dec 2009

The Mad Tibetan, Stories from Then and Now by Deepti Naval – Multiple Reviewers

My Legally Wedded Husband and Other Stories by Madhulika Liddle  – Arvind Passey 

Nair Told and Untold by Mohan Nair – Sankalpita Singh.  

New Market Tales by Jayant Kripalani – Anjana Basu and Others, 2013

Next Door by Jahnavi Barua – Murli Melwani, 2009

2012 Nights by Vipul Rikhi – Elen Turner

No Ghosts in This City by Uddipana Goswami – Ananya Sankar Guha, Rini Barman, Nov 2014

North by Northeast and Other Stories by Parmarsan S. Thangkhiew – Dhruba Hazarika, 2014

One Point Two Billion by Mahesh Rao – Urmi Chanda-Vaz, et al. Daunt Books, 2015

The Other by Various Authors – Manmeet Narang, New Delhi, 2018  

The Orphanage For Words by Shinie Antony – Janaky Sreedharan

The Patna Manual of Style and Diksha at St. Martin’s by Siddharth Chowdhury –  Chethana Dinesh, Nittal Chandarana, Gursheek Kaur, 2015 

Polymorphism by Indira Chandrasekhar – Fehmida Zakeer and SNEHA, 2017  

Rayanna by Basavaraj Naikar – Murli Melwani, Feb 2012

Rose Gardens and Minefields by Vivek Pereira – Shana Susan Ninan, 2012

Selected Stories by U. Subramanium – Prof Premachandran 

Simla Paintings and Other stories by Rita Joshi – Aditya Mani Jha, 2015 

Skylines by Neelam Saxena Chandra –  Garima Srivastava Nag, 2015 

Spotting Veron by Ankush Saikia – Murli Melwani, Jan 2012

Stories of a Salesman by Murli Melwani – William H. Archer, 1st edition 1967, 2nd edition 1979 

Stories of Hope by Krithi Jayakumar – Ravi, Feb 2014

Swimmer among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor –  Pratik Kanjilal and Prerna Raturi, New Delhi, 2016 

These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm – Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, 2016 

Train to Bombay by Jaina Sanga – Anisha Dhiman, Manjul Publishing House, 2016 

Transactions of Belonging by Jaya Padmanabhan – Jeanne E. Fredriksen, June 2014

Unseasonal Rain by Anupa Mehta – Sankalpita, Estrade Publishers LLP, Ahmedabad, 2015 

The Washing Machine and Other Stories by Anu Kumar – Moazzam Sheikh 

Why We Don’t Talk edited by Shinie Antony – U. Subramaniam Rupa & Co. 2010.  NEW

Women in Cages by Vilas Sarang – Jai Arjun Singh, May 2006

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