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Katha Regional Fiction
1993. PB. Rs. 80
5.5”x8”. pp 194
ISBN: 81-85586-10-1
Cover Design: Neeraj and Pallavi Sahai

A Southern Harvest
Authors: Various
Translators: Various

A Southern Harvest is a collection of 16 brilliant stories from the Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu literary canvas. The stories, by writers both new and established, have been translated into English especially for this volume. Each language section is introduced by an eminent literary figure in that language.

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Katha Short Fiction
1995. PB. Rs. 250
5.5”x8”. pp 182
ISBN: 81-87649-50-X (PB)
          81-85586-33-0 (HB)
Translated from the Kannada
Cover painting: T Vaikuntam
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan

Masti

Author: Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Editor: Ramachandra Sharma

Considered to be the father of the Kannada short story, Masti’s direct narration and sympathetic understanding of human nature make his stories evergreen.  U R Anantha Murthy describes this Sahitya  Akademi Awardee as one who has “a gentle and profound insight into what lasts in India, and what elements inherent in human nature threaten it ... the best in traditions of the East and the West have gone into the making of his liberal humanist philosophy.”

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Katha Short Fiction
2000. PB. Rs. 200.
5.5”x8”. pp 216
ISBN: 81-87649-01-1
Translated from the Bangla
Cover painting: Durriya Qazi
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan & Arvinder Chawla

Hauntings
Authors: Various
Editor: Suchitra Samanta

Elusive and jelly-like, the 13 ghost stories in this volume conjoin two different worlds: ethereal and the real. It features female protagonists who speak of intersecting, universal women-experiences of love and rape, loneliness and betrayal, marginalization and dark dilemmas. These are the elements through which the haunting stories are told in a quintessentially Bengali idiom. The volume’s stories are by writers spanning the entire twentieth century: Rabindranath Tagore, Pramatha Chaudhuri, Panchkori De, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Mahasweta Devi and the like.

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Katha Short Fiction
2007. PB. Rs 200
5.5”x8”. pp 152
ISBN: 978-81-89020-99-6
Translated from the Konkani
Cover painting: S P Chendvanker
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan

These are my Children
Author: Damodar Mauzo
Translator: Xavier Cota

Poignant, bittersweet, earthy. Nine heartwarming slices of life from Goa about empty nests, affections betrayed, relations made and unmade.The entanglements and entailments of human feeling echo through this engaging gallimaufry of stories from the pen of one of Goa’s finest writers. In this deeply sensitive translation from the Konkani, These Are My Children mirrors a Goa that may have changed with time yet holds on steadfastly to a character and energy that is all its own.

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Katha Short Fiction
2001. PB. Rs. 200
5.5”x8”. pp 208
ISBN: 81-87649-00-3
Translated from the Telugu
Cover painting: T Vaikuntam
Cover Design: Oroon Das

Ayoni and other Stories
Authors: Various
Translators: Various
Editors: Alladi Uma and M Sridhar

From dark dilemmas to sharp wounds. That is what this unique collection by writers spanning a century can be summed up as. The stories, unflinching in style and content, focus on women’s issues like abortion, rape, dowry and beyond. Each piece is reflective of a path-breaking vision that has altered the Telugu literary scene – in form, style and content.