The Indian medical field is vast and versatile, and writing stories based on medical experiences needs keen research or first-hand encounters. This book is a collection of 19 short stories translated from different languages like Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Odia, Bengali, Kashmiri, Hindi, Assamese and Marathi. All the stories are either medical fiction or nonfiction, involving the works of prominent writers like Rabindranath Tagore, Saadat Hasan Manto, Premchand and many others.