Tales From An
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Tales From An Unfamiliar Nation Tales From An Unfamiliar Nation

The Far Side of the Sun

The son of the morning crashes into an alien world, his pursuers closing in. Another tale from the Mahabharata drawn through a modern sensibility.

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Of Love and Other Cosmic Horrors

With apologies to the great Marquez, here we have a story of two friends and their brush with the clutching and writhing tentacles of love

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Matilda House

This story was inspired by the several impressive Portuguese bungalows that abut the streets of Goa.

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The Otherers

A mother survives after an apocalypse. A seemingly old story, but told with a (sometimes literal) desi flavor.

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Cornucopia

Inspired by when the author’s friend walked into the house and, twice, said, "Let's drink Roohafza." The thought spun up in the author’s head: what if he ate and couldn't stop eating?

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A Bottle of Water

An Indian American estranged from his parents' homeland, discovers on a trip to India his deeper connection to his father and grandfather.

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Symmetry

A story based on the legend of the 'Black Taj Mahal', which is said to have been intended to be built on the bank of the Yamuna opposite of our Taj Mahal

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Taking Stock

A young journalist reports on a familiar brother-against-brother corporate war in a Bombay where the British Raj never left India.

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Liar Bird

Centered around Mumbai's often forgotten Japanese Cemetery, Azania I Patel’s ‘Liar Bird’ ponders upon what it means to be haunted.

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The Scorching of Bengal

Harihar and his family take on starvation and dragons in this journey through a 1940s Bengal that never was.

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The Recognition of Nidhi

Modernity throws a wrench into two stories borrowed from the Hindu epic Mahabharata

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Shraap

A doctor tries to make sense of the rapidly deteriorating health of a young girl in this KJ Parker-esque riff on medical procedurals.

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