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100 1 _aSingh, Khushwant.
245 0 0 _aThe Portrait of a Lady :
_bcollected stories/
_cKhushwant Singh
246 1 7 _aBest Indian short stories
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bBooks Today,
_c2001-
300 _av. <1 > ;
_c23 cm.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
520 _aAnthology of short stories written by authors in their regional languages as well as those in English.
650 0 _aShort stories, Indic
_vTranslations into English.
650 0 _aShort stories, Indic (English)
700 0 _aKhushwant Singh,
_d1915-2014.
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