Timeless Tales in Translation

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>'Timeless Tales in translation'</em> brings together selected short stories (in translation) of the various Bengali and Hindi/Urdu writers from the Indian subcontinent. It includes the notable works of the most well-known Indian writers- Swarnakumari Devi Rabindranath Tagore Munshi Premchand Jaishankar Prasad Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and others. The stories selected contain some of the most groundbreaking progressive and thought-provoking writing in Indian Literature from 1855 to 1955 considered as an important period in the literary history of the subcontinent. A complex body of literature emerged in India during this period. The stories chosen from that interesting period cover a wide variety of subjects from historical to social to moral and they give us a glimpse of an intimate portrait of life bringing out a meticulous picture of rural semi-feudal India in the colonial times.</p><p><br></p>