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Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories Volume I is the first set of some of the best Indian short stories written by master storytellers, and selected by the literary giant Khushwant Singh. Summary of the Book This first volume of short stories selected by Khushwant Singh is an excellent collection of stories written by several Indian authors who have contributed their best to literature in their regional languages as well as in English. Khushwant has carefully selected some of the best told stories from all over the country, stories that bring out the spirit of our tradition and yet express human emotions that are not restricted by time and boundaries. Some of the tales chosen for this collection are written by people like M. J. Akbar, Amrita Pritam, Shashi Deshpande, Mulk Raj Anand, Margaret Bhatty, Kabir Bum, Ruskin Bond, Suresh Chopra, Kamala Das, Wendy Fernandes, Balwant Gargi, Hugh Gantzer, Qurratulain Hyder, and Abdul Jabbar, among others. About Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh was an Indo-Anglian writer, advocate, politician and journalist. A Padma Vibhushan awardee, Mr. Singh is best remembered for his humour, love of poetry and his vigorous treatment of secularism in his writings, most evident in: The Company of Women, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, With Malice towards One and All, The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories and Delhi: A Novel. A graduate of Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College London, he read for the Bar at the Inner Temple and served as a practising lawyer before entering journalism. He had worked with The Illustrated Weekly, The National Herald and Hindustan Times. A prolific writer, Mr. Singh wrote till the grand old age of 99, releasing his last work The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous a few months before his passing in March 2014.