Tales from Firozsha Baag
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781551994413 (1551994410)
Publish date: March 11th 2011
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Modern,
Short Stories,
Canada
It is said that when the British left India, they gifted their mannerism to the Parsis. I do not know the authenticity of such whimsical statements, although I have never seen any community with such great degree of clear-cut decorum. Parsi is a Persian Zoroastrian ethnic community; a minority in th...
A collection of interconnected stories about the tenants of an apartment block. The first story features a couple who have some maintenance issues in their apartment that result in physical discomfort and logistical inconvenience, and then the story winds out into a public humiliation, a frustrated...
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