This year's volume is compelling collection of sixteen stories from the linguistically exciting world that is India. Katha has consistently brought you the best of Indian fiction and, this year too, the winners of the Katha Award for Creative Fiction, each a formidable talent, have is common only the claim to excellence. As varied as variety itself, this collection brings to you trenchant, very Indian fictions that explore personal joys and sorrows, friendship and alienations, the everyday tenderness and harshness of life.