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This document lists 25 short stories, novels, essays, films, and documentaries from Indian literature that explore various social and political issues in India. Some of the works mentioned include the short story "Mother Has Committed a Murder" by Ambai, the novel "The Walls of Delhi" by Uday Prakash, the essay "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?" by A.K. Ramanujan, and the documentary film "Delhi in a Day".

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This document lists 25 short stories, novels, essays, films, and documentaries from Indian literature that explore various social and political issues in India. Some of the works mentioned include the short story "Mother Has Committed a Murder" by Ambai, the novel "The Walls of Delhi" by Uday Prakash, the essay "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?" by A.K. Ramanujan, and the documentary film "Delhi in a Day".

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1.

Ambai’s ‘Mother Has Committed a Murder’ (‘Amma Oru Kolai Seidal’ translated from Tamil
by Venkat Swaminathan; Manushi)
2. Uday Prakash’s ‘The Walls of Delhi’ from Delhi Noir (‘Dilli ki Deewar’ translated from Hindi by
Jason Grunebaum; Akashic Books)
3. William Dalrymple's ‘The Red Fairy’ from Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern
India (Bloomsbury)
4. ‘The Shah of Blah’ from Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Penguin)
5. Parashar Kulkarni’s ‘Cow and Company’ (Granta/Commonwealth Short Story Prize Winner
2016)
6. Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi’ (The New Yorker)
7. ‘Water’ from Bhimayana: Incidents in the Life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Durgabai Vyam,
Subhash Vyam, Srividya Natarajan, S Anand; Navayana)
8. Temsula Ao’s ‘The Night’ from The Hills Called Home (Zubaan)
9. Urmilla Pawar’s ‘The Fourth Wall’ (‘Chauthi Bhint’ translated from Marathi by Gail Omvedt;
Manushi)
10. Vijay Dan Detha’s ‘A Double Life’ from Same-Sex Love in India :Readings from Literature and
History ( ‘Dohri Zindagi’ translated from Rajasthani by Ruth Vanita; Palgrave Macmillan)
11. Krishna Sobti’s ‘Ai Ladki’ (translated from Hindi by Shivanath; The Little Magazine)
12. Stalin K’s 2007 feature documentary India Untouched: Stories of a People Apart
13. Chaitanya Tamhane’s 2015 feature film Court
14. The Hungry Stones, Rabindranath Tagore http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2518/2518-
h/2518-h.htm
15. The Indigo Terror, Satyajit Ray
https://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/translations/stories/satyajit_indigo.html
16. ‘Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist’, Salman Rushdie (From Imaginary Homelands)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=140AC584E3B031547DBEC2C8C63F1725
(Libgen)
17. A Real Durwan, Jhumpa Lahiri (From the Interpreter of Maladies)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6D9A264D41716910AB9E6E36B38BB688
(Libgen)
18. A Choice of Accommodations, Jhumpa Lahiri (From Unaccustomed Earth)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2BCC61E87D7C876EC71318FC7ECD55CA
(Libgen)
19. Ten Rupees, Manto http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/urdu/ten-rupees-and-mozelle-two-
short-stories-by-saadat-hasan-manto
20. Mozelle, Manto http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/urdu/ten-rupees-and-mozelle-two-
short-stories-by-saadat-hasan-manto
21. Ranamama, Urvashi Butalia (From The Other Side of Silence)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=BC09E10C689256AC1AFD0A460EA2E3D7
(Libgen)
22. ‘Is there an Indian way of thinking?’ Section 1 and 2 , A.K. Ramanujan
http://archives.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/Is_there_an_Indian_Way_of_Thinking_An_Informal_Ess
ay.pdf
23. “The Revolt of the Untouchables” (Excerpt)
http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4834:the-
revolt-of-the-untouchables&catid=116:dr-ambedkar&Itemid=128
24. The Breast-Giver, Mahashweta Devi, http://briancroxall.pbworks.com/f/Devi-
BreastGiver.pdf
25. Delhi in a Day (Film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmI3ATWlBRw&t=10s

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