Jayant Kaikini

Biography

Jayant Kaikini is a Kannada poet, short-story writer, columnist, and playwright, as well as an award-winning lyricist and script and dialogue writer for Kannada films. He has won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award several times, in addition to winning various other awards in India, including the first Kusumagraj Rashtriya Bhasha Sahitya Puraskar. No Presents Please (Harper, 2017), his volume of selected stories, is the first book in translation to have won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. “Dagadu Parab’s Wedding Horse” is excerpted from No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (Catapult, 2020).

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FICTION / Summer 2020

Dagadu Parab’s Wedding Horse

By Jayant Kaikini ,  Translation by Tejaswini Niranjana ,  Illustration by Michael Byers

The marriage procession turned from Mulund’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Road toward the railway station, wending its way through the main bazaar. Leading the procession were the men of the brass band in their glittering outfits, followed by the...

Illustration by Michael Byers