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The Portrait of a Lady : collected stories/ Khushwant Singh

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Books Today, 2001-Description: v. <1 > ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780143065876
Other title:
  • Best Indian short stories [Running title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.4 22
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. An Indian Dream -- M.J. Akbar -- 2. Why Does the Child Cry? -- Mulk Raj Anand -- 3. Ramblings on a Beach -- Kabir Bedi -- 4. Intermittent Fever -- Rajinder Singh Bedi -- 5. The Birdman -- Margaret Bhatty -- 6. The Leopard -- Ruskin Bond -- 7. The Tiger in the Tunnel -- Ruskin Bond -- 8. Those Thirty Minutes -- Krishan Chander -- 9. The Brinjal Cut-Out -- Krishan Chander -- 10. Flight 303 -- Suresh Chopra -- 11. Housewife -- Ismat Chugtai -- 12. A Home Near the Sea -- Kamala Das -- 13. The Crocodile's Lady -- Manoj Das -- 14. Descent from the Rooftop -- Anita Desai. -- 15. The Dark -- Shashi Deshpande -- 16. One More Dead Body -- Kartar Singh. Duggal -- 17. Midnight -- Wendy Fernandes. -- 18. A Flavour of Myrrh -- Coleen Gantzer -- 19. The Blue Hills Where the Sun Never Sets -- Hugh Gantzer -- 2 0. Mataji and the Hippies -- Balwant Gargi -- 21. Memories of an Indian Childhood -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 22. A Candle for St. Jude -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 23. My Aunt Gracie -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 24. Honour -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 25. A Tale of the Hijras -- Abdul Jabbar -- 26. The Birth of a Poem -- Amrita Pritam.
Summary: Anthology of short stories written by authors in their regional languages as well as those in English.
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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) South Asian Corner (Level 4) 891.4 S6173p 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 024350
Total holds: 0

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Indian Dream -- M.J. Akbar -- 2. Why Does the Child Cry? -- Mulk Raj Anand -- 3. Ramblings on a Beach -- Kabir Bedi -- 4. Intermittent Fever -- Rajinder Singh Bedi -- 5. The Birdman -- Margaret Bhatty -- 6. The Leopard -- Ruskin Bond -- 7. The Tiger in the Tunnel -- Ruskin Bond -- 8. Those Thirty Minutes -- Krishan Chander -- 9. The Brinjal Cut-Out -- Krishan Chander -- 10. Flight 303 -- Suresh Chopra -- 11. Housewife -- Ismat Chugtai -- 12. A Home Near the Sea -- Kamala Das -- 13. The Crocodile's Lady -- Manoj Das -- 14. Descent from the Rooftop -- Anita Desai. -- 15. The Dark -- Shashi Deshpande -- 16. One More Dead Body -- Kartar Singh. Duggal -- 17. Midnight -- Wendy Fernandes. -- 18. A Flavour of Myrrh -- Coleen Gantzer -- 19. The Blue Hills Where the Sun Never Sets -- Hugh Gantzer -- 2 0. Mataji and the Hippies -- Balwant Gargi -- 21. Memories of an Indian Childhood -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 22. A Candle for St. Jude -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 23. My Aunt Gracie -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 24. Honour -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 25. A Tale of the Hijras -- Abdul Jabbar -- 26. The Birth of a Poem -- Amrita Pritam.

Anthology of short stories written by authors in their regional languages as well as those in English.