In English
Sahitya Akademi 2001 · Winner
Collected Stories
طاؤس چمن کی مینا · Taoos Chaman Ki Maina
Naiyer Masud · 62 when first published
Short stories · 662 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories steeped in Lucknow and the traces of its vanished past; in the best known, set in the mid-nineteenth century, a jobless widower takes work in the Nawab's garden tending its talking mynas.