Contents
The Black Bee Is Sleeping Atop the Mountain
01 Siddha Mahavir
02 Doma, Budhan, and...
03 Shabdashastram [The Science of Words]
04 The Village of the Mahisbar [Buffalo-Grazer] Brahmins
05 Caste
The Other Side of Memory
06 The Copyist
07 The Last Reader
08 The Shot at the Border
09 The Mason's Fall
10 Kohl
11 The Dry Kamala
12 The Scent of Earth
13 The Sisters
14 House Number Five
15 The Music Teacher
Light — Stories Across Lifetimes
16 The Maternal Line
17 Raga
18 The Court
19 Dom
20 Videha
The Hundred-Story Trilogy · Volume I
21 Two Letters
22 Photo Studio
23 A Pair of Shoes
24 Shared Shade
25 The Other Door
26 The Seven-Minute Voice
27 The Unfinished Play
28 The Thirty-First Bed
29 The Brick Mark
30 Outside the Count
The Hundred-Story Trilogy · Volume II
31 Beyond the Embankment
32 The Voice of the Land
33 The Sewing Machine
34 Ten Kilos of Rice
35 The Unfinished Song
36 The Clay Flute
37 The Open Door
38 Silent Testimony
39 Kurthi Lentils
40 The Dream of One Bigha
The Hundred-Story Trilogy · Volume III
41 The Empty Bag
42 The Boat Remained Tied
43 The Pond Keeper
44 The Dom’s Flute
45 The Register Beneath the Banyan
46 The Caste Chair
47 The Tenant Girl
48 Secret Savings
49 The Station Not on the Map
50 An Unfamiliar Home of One’s Own
Three Streams of Stories · Volume I
51 The Bell That Never Rang
52 The Road That Turned Back
53 The Blank Notebook
54 One Wrong Word
55 Before the Lamp Went Out
56 The Night Boat
57 Not a Leader Who Forgets Names, but a Teacher
58 The River’s Paper
59 The Sand Ghat
60 The Power of a Signature
Three Streams of Stories · Volume II
61 Night on the Watch Platform
62 The Turning Seal
63 Chair Number Zero in the Waiting Room
64 The Empty Date Field
65 The Original Page of the Correction Register
66 Three Empty Chairs
67 The Verandah Bulb
68 One Cup of Tea Less
69 The Bamboo Bridge
70 The Washed-Away Ridge
Three Streams of Stories · Volume III
71 School Shoes
72 The Panchayat Hand Pump
73 Wages
74 The Little Teacher
75 Seven Steps
76 Autobiography of the File
77 Boundary
78 The Verandah Bulb
79 The Endless Register
80 The Library of Mithila
New Wings
81 Life on Crutches
82 The Book Saved in the Flood