Second of the tetrology ... The Palette, The Easel, The Canvas and The Painting... this is a collection of of 15 select short stories from Telugu rendered into English. Master story tellers like Munipalle Raju, Chalam, Binadevi, Dr. V. Chandrasekhara Rao, Gopichand, Allam Seshagiri Rao, Ravi Kondala Rao, Ghandikota Brahmaji Rao, Seela Veerraju, Datla Narayana Murty Raju, Dr. Vipparthy Pranava Murty, M. Ramakoti and RS Krishna Moorthy ... showcase the evolution of Telugu short story, shedding off its western influences and growing independently into a wonderful art and craft, matching narrative technic, style and intrigue of any other world class short story without sacrifycing the Indian flavour. The translators received Katha- British Council South Asian Translation Award 2000 for Telugu for the translation of the short story "The Mirage".
