Katha's continuing attempt to foster and encourage the best in Indian short fiction has this year yielded thirteen provocative stories from ten regional languages and an equally stimulating narrative originally written in English. Many of the stories in this collection imaginatively recreate the political, cultural and social upheavals affecting our country today. As the nation celebrates its fiftieth year of independence, Katha Prize Stories presents a stunning, often electrifying, perspective on the plurality of experience that is India.