Nine bosses had come and gone, but all nine had seemed like fruits from the same tree to Bhogilal. The first boss came and always chose Bhogilal to accompany his wife; the second one lessened that ...

Dhumketu is regarded a pioneer of the short story form. A contemporary of Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand and Manto, Dhumketu — the pen-name of Gujarati writer Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi ...

“The short story is not the miniature form of the novel... The novel says whatever it wants. The short story, by rousing the imagination and emotions, only alludes to or provides a spark of whatever ...

Author and translator Jenny Bhatt holds a copy of her translation of "The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories," the first substantial collection in English of stories by the Gujarati writer Dhumketu.

The title story of Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt, is by no means the only one in the book that grabbed my attention and kept it. In fact, I ...

When did you first come across Dhumketu’s works? My mother was a big reader of Gujarati literature, especially short stories. While growing up, I had often heard her mention Dhumketu and Meghani.

Ratno Dholi, a selection of Gaurishankar Joshi’s (Dhumketu was his pen name) short stories, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt, is among the best short story collections to have emerged from ...