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No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories

Jayant Kaikini · English translation 2017 · India / Kannada

Mumbai stories by Kannada writer Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana.

Notes and Misconceptions

This is not Mumbai as colorful backdrop.

The city is a pressure system: work, longing, class, movement, disappointment, and small acts of grace.

Best Path

City stories, working life, translation

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