Here are seventeen award-winning stories which set new standards for short story writing in India. Coming in the wake of two highly successful earlier volumes, Katha Prize Stories Volume 3 once again celebrates new and established writers - the pioneers and the path-breakers - who have looked with great sensitivity and perception at the moral and psychological paradoxes of our lives. Fifteen of these stories were written in ten regional languages and were initially selected for publication by discerning editors of journals and magazines during 1991-1993.