We start off with stories by two Indian writers – K.A.
Abbas (Urdu) and Srimathi Rajam Krishnan (Tamil).
MORE TELUGU SHORT STORIES Shiva’s Sword: ªÃ©Áôþà Ž™ÁÓÏ
(Translated from other languages) Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1941-1987) was an Indian film
director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in Urdu,
Hindi and English languages. He was the maker of important
Here we present short stories in Telugu translated from Hindi films like Saat Hindustani, Shehar Aur Sapna, and the
screenwriter for the best of Raj Kapoor films.
other languages by well known authors.
All the stories to be included in this section won Needle & Sensibility: ¬ÁÆžÃͬÁÏ Á¨©Á§ÁÏ
Rajam Krishnan (b.1925) is an important writer on the
recognition and prizes in an international short story
Tamil literary scene for more than the last fifty years. She is
competition organized by Mr. Patrick Thompson of the New the author of more than eighty books of fiction and non-
fiction including kurinjithen, Alavai Kariyile, and Verukku
York Herald Tribune in 1950 with the support of
Neer for which she won the Sahitya Akademi Award in
U.N.E.S.C.O. In the words of Dr. Torres Bodet, its Director- 1973. Other awards include the Soviet Land Nehru Award
(1975) and Thiru Vi. Ka. Award (1991).
General, the project “ aims to stimulate creative efforts on a
broad scale across national frontiers, as does this short-story Grateful thanks are hereby acknowledged to the Hindustan Times,
New Delhi who originally included these stories in their volume
contest . . I hope that it will set a precedent for similar co- International SHORT STORIES – The Best from Twenty-nine countries
for their permission to translate these stories into Telugu.
operative efforts on an international plane extending to other
fields of creative activity.” *******
To my knowledge that was the first – perhaps the only
time - when such a world contest was held.
In 1952, the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, selected and
published them in a volume called International SHORT
STORIES – The Best from Twenty-nine countries. It may be
pointed that in India the Hindustan Times was responsible
for organizing the gigantic nation-wide short-story contest
covering so many languages.
1 2
