Short Story Reads: The Mark of Vishnu: Stories by Khushwant Singh

This compact Penguin Evergreens edition (first published in 2011) contains ten of Khushwant Singh’s short stories. Singh’s writing style is akin to an entertaining newspaper article, adorned with a layman’s vocabulary and easy to comprehend.  Cheekiness and biting satire stand out in this collection. The straight-faced effect of the words is the author mocking at … Read more