dilli me ek or maut kahani ka sarans
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A Death in Delhi” is a classic of the Nayī Kahānī (or “New Story”) style of the post-Independence period. Short story writers like Kamleshwar (1932 - 2007) turned their attention from the lives of the rural poor, a subject so beloved by Premchand, to the ennui of the urban middle class. There was a new interest in the psychological lives of characters, as is evident in this story where there is very little action but quite a lot of description of the atmosphere (it is a foggy and bitterly cold Delhi winter) and a great deal of introspection. The narrator obsesses over what the neighbors will think about him if he does not join in a funeral procession. The style is marked by a heavy use of English words and so reflects the actual linguistic environment of the Indian urban middle class. (The glossary below only provides some of this English words so the student is advised to sound out unfamiliar words to see if they might just be English written in Hindi.)