01427nam a2200193 a 4500 ASIN0143068792 20170105102849.0 130820s2013 xxu eng d 0143068792 (paperback) $24.75 9780143068792 (paperback) 0 (Tr.), Gulzar & Sunjoy Shekhar. Half a rupee : stories / Gulzar & Sunjoy Shekhar (Tr.) [S.l.] : Penguin, 2013. 232 p. ; 20 cm. A suicide bomber in a small town plans out her last day, getting herself photographed before she goes and blows up the prime minister. A drunkard in a Mumbai slum tries to compete with the torrential rain, even as it washes his dwelling away. An army man at the border has become so accustomed to speaking over the wireless that he ends every sentence with Over! And in the title story, a cop drags a dead cow from Vinayak Rao Patwardhan Road to the adjoining Bapu Road, since the latter is so much easier to spell. From real-life stories about Javed Akhtar, Sahir Ludhianvi and Kuldip Nayyar to tales set in Kashmir, in the hinterland, in the modern megapolis and on the LoC, from anecdotes of love and betrayal to fables of courage and conviction, this is an enthralling collection available in English for the very first time. Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143068792/chopaconline-20 ddc BK 14184 14184 0 0 0 0 NFIC CIPS CIPS GEN 2013-08-20 1 2 823.91 HAL 2013 CIPS0000687 2018-12-11 2018-11-05 2013-08-20 BK