CONTENTS: Acknowledgements, A Preface to the translation of the complete stories of Pudumaipittan, Pudumaipittan: Personality andCreativity-SundaraRamasway, * The Riverside Piliaiyar, * Sanku Thevan's bounty, * The Golden City, * The Pandemonium caused by Tirukkural, * A Bed speaks, * Paradise, * Ramanathan's Letter, * The Temple of Kali, * Slavesof Emotions, * Preparing forFinals, * Justice, * A Nandan for our Times, * Kounthan and Cujpid, * This is the Machine Age!, * A Contract, * An Open Window, * For just a Single Individual, * Forfeiture, * The Street Lamp, * Ahalya, * A Letter, * As the Whim goes, * If only some good comes out of it, * A Good Samaritan, * The Kannan Flute, * The Never-Fading Jasmine, * The Manila Tamarind Tree, * Trust, * The new Beacon of Light, * A Dream Girl, * 'It was I who killed him', * Twilight Giddiness, * The Teak Saplings, * Two Worlds, * The new Kanda Puranam, * Kuppan's Dream, * Grandma's Diwali, * Manliness, * Gold's Representative, * Gopala Aiyangar's Wife, * Chanappan's Hen, * The Illusory Net, * Palvannam Pillai, * Who is the Culprit?, * A Way Out, * A Facade, * Gopalapuram, * The Pumpkin Boy, * Sama's Mistake, * Kalyani, * An Experience of a Murder, * A Well of Misery, * Dr Sampath, * The Cave of Wisdom, * ASculptor's Hell, * Life!, * The new Cage, * Brahma Rakshas, * The Vinayaka Festival, * A Day Passed, * The Story told by a Demon, * The Human Machine, * Yama andtghe old Woman, * A Vicious Gang, * The Pathway of Memory, * A Question Mark, * Pictures from Mental Caves, * It is Right, * Advice, * The Revolutionary Attitude, * The Modern Snob, * A Strange Desire, * A Saint, a Child and Some Snacks, * The Impact of Mars, * The Loves of Subbiah Pillai, * That Fatal Laughter, * The Dummy Horse, * Miscarriage, * The Given Word, * The Vast Cremation Ground, * Kanchanai, * Chellammal, * Deliverance from a Curse, * A Story of not getting down from the Bed, * God and Kandasami Pillai, * Heavenly Bliss, * Service to Lord Siva, * Nir Vikalpa samadhi, * Reality and Imagination, * Everything always turns out for the best in the end, * Kapadapuram, * That Night, * Hurry-Scurry, * Reincarnation, * The Rope Serpent, * 'This Sinner', * The Epic of Literary Mamma Nayanar, * The Stepmother, * The Fire that Mother Lit (An unfinished novel), Glossary, Life Sketch of Pudumaipittan, Index.