Hats and Doctors offers English readers the opportunity to savour for the first time the work of Upendranath Ashk one of Hindi literature's best known and most controversial authors. The stories in this collection often display a wry sense of humour such as 'The Dal Eaters' in which a family of cheapskates journeys to Kashmir. While Ashk's satirical eye is employed to great effect in 'The Cartoon Hero' where a hapless traveller encounters a petty politician on a train his talent for capturing hu