TY - BOOK AU - Garg,Sanjay AU - Samarasinghe,Wimaladasa ED - SAARC Cultural Centre. TI - Contemporary short stories of the SAARC region, 2012 SN - 9556651985 (pbk.) PY - 2013/// CY - Colombo PB - Published by SAARC Cultural Centre & Vijitha Yapa Publications KW - Short stories, South Asian KW - Translations into English N1 - Short stories; Translated from various languages; Afghanistan. The wedding night / Abdul wakil Sulamal -- Sleeping around / Abdul wakil Sulamal -- Infertile / Abdul wakil Sulamal -- The end / Rashid Khattak. Bangladesh. Turban / Syed Waliullah -- A few conversations / Zahir Raihan -- A few pages from an unknown diary / Murtaza Baseer -- In retrospect / Selina Hossain. Bhutan. Ura Dung Nagpo / Tashi Pelyang Lendup -- A pig on the altar - T. Sangay Wangihuk -- Potatoes / Ngawang Phuntsho. India. No man;s land / Anuradha Sarma Pujari -- The art gallery / Rabisankar Bal -- The Siberian crane / Sharat Kumar -- Spectral Sacrifice / C. Ayyappan -- Fish of a dead river / Smriti Kumar Sinha -- The wild jasmine / Paramita Satpathy -- A clerk's story / Dilip Kumar -- But why wouldn't the Baindla woman ask for her land? Gogu Shyamala; Nepal. Maiya Saheb / Bhawani Bhikshu -- Pabitra / Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala -- The pigeon and the prisoner / Vijaya Malla -- The son that didn't give birth to Parijat. Pakistan. Pawns / Ahmad Javed -- No crying bad boy! No / Anwaar Ahmad -- The sand's edge / Mazhar ul Islam -- How grief perishes / M. Hameed Shahid / Bugleman / Rasheed Amjad / The heathen air / Muneeza Shamise -- The poison of loneliness / Musarrat Kalanchvi / The bane of life / Nu-ul-Huda Shah -- The magic flower / Parveen Malik -- Dilshada / Zaitoon Bano -- The poison of the blue rose / Yasmin Marri. Sri Lanka. The gaze / Ahila Thillainathan -- Room no. 107 / Tharanga Ranasinghe -- Seed paddy / Piyal Kariyawasam -- Kafka and the patriarch / Eric Illayapparachchi -- The captain's daughter / Dayasena Gunasinghe ER -