Love, relationships, struggle, humanity, nature, mythology, society and life were the favorite subjects of storytellers this year. The selection of the best story collections of the year 2024 in ‘Literature Tak: Book Café Top 10’ shows that the questions of humanity are still most important for our storytellers. See this list, read more, and know about those story collections that made it here. Congratulations to the storytellers, publishers, editors and translators…
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To enrich the world of words, reach literature every day and increase book culture, India Today Group had started the digital channel ‘Sahitya Tak’. This channel, dedicated to literature, art, culture and music, started the program ‘Book Café’ based on book discussion in the year 2021… Initially, this program started with the discussion of five books together in a week, today this program has expanded into its bigger format. It is popular in form.
When the space for ‘book’ discussions was getting snatched away in the Indian media world, many programs based on authors and books were telecast in the ‘Book Café’ of ‘Sahitya Tak’. These include book discussion every day under ‘One Day, One Book’, conversation with a writer on his recently published works in ‘Shabd-Rathi’ program and dialogue with a senior writer on his life’s work in ‘Baatein-Mulakaaten’ program. .
‘Book Cafe’ being telecasted every evening at 4 pm on ‘Sahitya Tak’ has received immense love from publishers, creators and readers. When the influx of books started increasing continuously amid the immense love of our viewers and listeners, we have also started giving information about the books received by ‘Book Café’ in the program ‘New Books’ every Saturday and Sunday at 10 am. .
At the time of inception of ‘Literature Tak’ Book Café, its operators had said that if information about new books released in the market can be found at one place, then what could be more wonderful than this for book lovers? If you are also fond of reading books and want to know about them, then the best place for you is ‘Book Café’ of Sahitya Tak.
When ‘Sahitya Tak’ started the series of ‘Book Cafe Top 10’ from the year 2021, the objective was that you must know about the ten most readable books of a particular genre of that year. This series of ‘Literature Tak Book Café Top 10’ is unique in itself, and has received immense respect from respected writers, literary world, publishing industry and readers. We are happy that in the series of ‘Sahitya Tak – Book Café Top 10’ in the year 2021, only top 10 books of 5 categories – translation, popular, story, novel, story were selected.
Top 10 books in a total of 17 categories were selected in the year 2022 and 2023 on the request of authors, publishers and book lovers. This year 2024, this list of ‘Book Café Top 10 till Literature’ is coming before you in total 12 categories.
‘Book Café’ is a reflection of our unwavering commitment and painstaking dedication towards books as well as your trust and confidence in us. Despite this we are aware of our limitations. It is possible that some of the best books may not have reached us, it is also possible that due to the abundance of best books of some categories or due to time period, they could not be discussed… Still, the field of study should not be blocked. Keep reading, keep choosing books, may this list boost your reading interest and enrich your book collection.
Thank you all for your support, cooperation and love for ‘Sahitya Tak”s efforts to promote book culture.
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Sahitya Tak Book Cafe Top 10: Best story collections of the year 2024
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* ‘Vanya’ Manisha Kulshrestha
– ‘Vanya’ refers to the rivers passing through the forest. The flow of these rivers is free. No matter how many obstacles there are, they wake up and flow after being dormant. The stories in this collection of stories are of tribal women like Vanya. These stories of tribal identities are not stories of tribal discourse in any conventional sense, but are a window which gives you an opportunity to peek into your life and environment. The simplicity with which primitive idioms appear in these stories of tribal life transforms them from the spirit of life into linguistic lyricism. In these stories, there is not only the living and natural environment of the North-East, but also the vibration of life there. The basic tone of these stories is the words received from ancestors, a feeling of friendship with trees and animals and a glimpse of concern for the forest.
– Publisher: Rajpal & Sons
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* ‘Zoya Desai Cottage’ Pankaj Subir
– Be it the fear of getting infected during the Corona period, or the worry about the last rites of the dead bodies, or a person suffering from mental illness due to the impact of social media in today’s chaotic times, or such an innocent love in which complexion, caste- All the lines become meaningless, Subir’s stories have their own style. He makes even serious topics interesting. His sophisticated language and tremendous craftsmanship force one to read every word of the story. The stories in this collection are like this. There is also a desire for forbidden happiness beyond those constraints for woman after woman, whose heroines break the boundaries of social traditions and taboos and seek happiness for themselves. A woman’s love, her yearning, the plight of the housewife, the suppression of her desires, farmer’s life, modernity, urban society… the stories in this collection keep the reader with them for a long time.
– Publisher: Shivana Prakashan
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* ‘Putli stole the sky’. Madhav Hada
– The meaning of this line from a story by Mahadevi Verma, ‘Putli ne Akash Churaya’ is that in every era there has been a woman who has had her own world, existence and sky. We find many strong women with such sky even in the medieval era of India. This collection includes narrative adaptations of works based on the narrative tradition of eight powerful women of the same era. These eight women are not homogeneous and linear in nature – they have their own distinct aspirations, desires, resolutions and behavior and they openly express their joys, sorrows, desires and emotions. Despite so much difference, there is a similarity in all of them that their role is central and decisive in every story. This adaptation of rare narratives in different Indian languages, written between the eighth and seventeenth centuries, presents such a vivid depiction of the world of women in the society of that time that the reader is both fascinated and inspired by them.
– Publisher: Rajpal & Sons
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* ‘Dagdar Babu’ Dr. Yatish Aggarwal
These eight best stories of Hindi fiction, touching, probing and tickling the soul of medical science, say a lot in one collection. This shows that there are thousands of suns hidden in the medical profession! Moments of sadness and happiness! Auspicious sounds resonating from time to time! The sacred thinking of Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah Sarve Santu Niramaya! Search for truth, new rare experiences and gardens of knowledge born from wisdom! Amazing confluence of art and science! That code of conduct by which only a doctor can be entitled to call himself a true child of Dhanvantari… written by Munshi Premchand, Phanishwarnath Renu, Uday Prakash, Awadhesh Preet, Ramesh Upadhyay, Rekha Agarwal, Yogendra Ahuja and compiled by Dr. Yatish Agarwal. These stories reveal the truth of the medical world, in which doctors are both gods, humans and…
– Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan
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* ‘Gham’ Shyam Bihari Shyamal
– By presenting the experiences and characters from the glorified Banaras to the neglected Palamu on the world map in a storyteller style, the author of this collection has further strengthened his journalistic experience as well as his writing skills. Every dimension of Indian life and people’s mind has been depicted in these stories. Harrowing, questioning, filled with conflicts and ambushes, these stories create such a quagmire of emotions due to the problem of Naxalism, police functioning, city and village life as well as changes in town and urban culture that the reader’s sensibilities are captivated by it. Connects with the characters and environment at the level of the mind and soul. During this time, the reader chooses the path of peeling back the layers of these stories and confronting the questions involved in them. Complete account of today’s India, from social to ideological, on the pretext of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand.
– Publisher: Rajpal & Sons
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* ‘Gillu’s new story’. Dr Nidhi Agarwal
This unique book, full of amazing and exciting experiences arising from the intimate companionship of a squirrel, expanding human sensibilities, incarnates Mahadevi Verma’s immortal character Gillu in a new form. Upon meeting this tiny creature in the writer’s courtyard, a fountain of affection for her bursts forth. It also contains cheerful threads of family togetherness, so further information is available from the drawing. The arrival of Gillu in the narrator’s life is like a light of sensitivity and tenderness, which connects him with the non-human world around him. From that world where they see the full life that we all usually ignore. The narrator begins to understand life as more prosperous by being connected to this world of birds, squirrels and other types of birds. An interesting and sentimental book, which is a single story, with every moment and every page being presented to the reader in the form of stories intertwined with each other.
– Publisher: Unbound Script
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*’injury’ Chandan Pandey
– The stories in this collection, which expose the equations of this rapidly changing world and the human, family and social relations that are changing along with it, with the most ruthless neutrality, put forward different forms of injury. All the seven stories included in the collection reflect a hurt that each one of us is either eating or passing on to someone. In these stories, there is a character who rises above office boredom and hurts his dictatorial officers, and hides behind his injury a character who escapes from the street bullies, who escapes from the debtors who try to collect interest by cutting off his leg. Were in. One blow breaks the inner inertia of the urban middle class, while the other marks a decisive change in the caste equations of Indian society. The newness of the language, its communicability and the transparency in the subject matter make these stories such that they force you to stop and think.
– Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan
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* ‘Tales of Coffiana’ Dushyant
– There are 26 stories in this collection. These stories form a beautiful collage of emotions, scenes and life situations, whose rainbow colors touch, soak, overwhelm and shock not only the mind but even the soul. The effect of reading these stories is also unique in itself. These stories introduce us to the psychological complexities of relationships and present the key to expanding the dimension of love. In a story, the narrator takes the reader deep into the depths of the young mind. The black and white characters of this collection and their colorful adventures also give a glimpse of the future of human civilization. These stories, wrapped in their soil and cultural environment in a typical grassroots style, sing praises of their importance even amidst the diversity of relationships and give this storyteller a unique identity as a creator among contemporary Indian writers.
– Publisher: Penguin Swadesh
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* ‘pui’ Rahul Srivastava
– The special thing about this story collection is that its stories are written from very personal experience and perspective, which reaches to such a level where the readers are not only able to see a part of their life but also face the truth of their personal life. -Becomes ru. Saeed Akhtar Mirza says that the creator of these stories searches his inner soul truthfully and puts his pain, his anger, his memories and even his guilt in words and puts it before the world. In all these stories, one can feel the stone which, despite being a stone in its structure, does not want to cause injury but definitely creates a stir in the stagnant water. These stories include the widespread violence spread in the society under the pretext of home as well as the pain arising from it. The language of the collection is very simple yet full of honesty, while reading which the reader can see himself in the mirror.
– Publisher: ‎Lokbharti Prakashan
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* ‘As much as this saga’ Ekant Srivastava
– Color is the basis of these stories. Can a story be written on colors also? All the fourteen stories included in this collection focus on different colors. In the story, colors are not only characters in themselves, but they also reveal the characters in their lives, in nature and in the layers of reality. Ultimately in their condensed form they turn into a metaphor for human sensibilities. That is why in the same story the same colors are opposed to each other and face to face. Love, pure nature, warmth of human relationships are found alive in these stories. Color is a favorite word in Hindi stories but perhaps for the first time it has been used in such a deep, multidimensional and synthetic meaning. These stories are so rare that they risk standing apart from today’s storytelling idiom. This book combines its saga with its experimentalism; And it is also readable because of the depiction of the unbreakable relationship between man and nature and the innocence of emotions.
– Publisher: Rajpal & Sons
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Congratulations to all the book writers, publishers, translators and dear readers included in the ‘Sahitya Tak Book Café Top 10’ of the year 2024!
Let us be clear, this is not a sequential ranking. All the books that make it to the top 10 list should be included in your ‘readable in all circumstances’ books. This series of top 10 books of total 12 categories in the year 2024 will continue for one more day i.e. till tomorrow 31st December.
