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Best Indian Short Stories

This Is How It Took Place by Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee

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‘Prodigious, gifted, precocious: Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee was all of this. It is an incalculable loss to Indian literature that she left us at the age of sixteen.’   JEET THAYIL It seems as if I have been waiting here for years. Thus begins the first story in this collection: someone waiting

Diwali in Muzaffarnagar: A Short Story by Tanuj Solanki

It was the day of Diwali, around three in the afternoon. I was in the toilet, the common toilet between my parents’ bedroom – only in name, because they haven’t slept together for fifteen years – and the room that houses my ailing grandfather. I was masturbating thinking of Marie-Anne,