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9789351772163 60ba0102e21c223c3ea7e325 Day of Reckoning: Stories https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/60ba523b60e17e4f63f22cd8/9789351772163.jpg Even before Indian writing in English became the fashionable thing it is today Nayantara Sahgal was a name to reckon with internationally. In Day of Reckoning: Stories her first collection of short stories one finds a familiar engagement with society human rights and politics and a Sahgalesque subversive take on tradition.

A foreign journalist tries to make sense of a rapidly changing India even as a leading political leader is assassinated in public; a Naxalite who believes in scientific killing of the class enemy and the cult of violence is shattered when it boomerangs on him; a favourite aunt assigned the task of getting her young nephew back to India from London for an arranged marriage finds more than she had bargained for.

This is a thought-provoking yet disturbing collection of stories from a master storyteller. Brimming with rare insights on the human condition and informed by the changing political and cultural ambience of the nation Day of Reckoning is a must-have addition to every library.
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  • ISBN: 9789351772163
  • Author: Sahgal Nayantara
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pages: 176
  • Format: Hardback
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Even before Indian writing in English became the fashionable thing it is today Nayantara Sahgal was a name to reckon with internationally. In Day of Reckoning: Stories her first collection of short stories one finds a familiar engagement with society human rights and politics and a Sahgalesque subversive take on tradition.

A foreign journalist tries to make sense of a rapidly changing India even as a leading political leader is assassinated in public; a Naxalite who believes in scientific killing of the class enemy and the cult of violence is shattered when it boomerangs on him; a favourite aunt assigned the task of getting her young nephew back to India from London for an arranged marriage finds more than she had bargained for.

This is a thought-provoking yet disturbing collection of stories from a master storyteller. Brimming with rare insights on the human condition and informed by the changing political and cultural ambience of the nation Day of Reckoning is a must-have addition to every library.

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