In eight years, the annual Katha Prize Stories has become something of a literary sensation This year's collection ,we hope, continues the tradition. The worlds created by the Katha Award winners - be it a story set in contemporary Mumbai or a complex fable narrated by the Kunkna Dangi Adivasis of Gujarat - are moulded with intelligence and artistry. Chosen by respected critics and translated into English by the winners of the Katha Awards for Translation, the stories in this volume are representative of some of the most sensitive works produced in the bhashas.