Animalia Indica

In Animalia indica, Sumana Roy collects the best fiction written about animals from the past hundred years or so. Beginning with Premchand’s classic, ‘a tale of two bullocks’, and taking in its sweep some of the greatest pieces of literary fiction to have originated in India including ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’ by Rudyard Kipling, ‘Mahesh’ by Sarah Chandra Chattopadhyay, ‘the mark of Vishnu’ by Khushwant Singh, ‘a horse and two goats’ by R. K. Narayan, ‘poonachi’ by Perumal Murugan, ‘the crocodile and the monkey’ by Vikram Seth, ‘the reflections of a hen in her last hour’ by Paul zacharia, ‘the last tiger’ by Ruskin Bond and ‘elephant at sea’ by Kanishk Tharoor, the stories in Animalia indica are guaranteed to dazzle the reader.