This is a new edition of Birthday Deathday & Other Stories by Padma
Perera, first published by The Women's Press, England, 1985, with
international reviews from the UK, USA, Europe, and the Commonwealth
countries. Additional material now provides more oral history from the
first four decades just before and after India's independence,
1940s-1980s. The story "Doctor Salaam" was included in Salman Rushdie's
Mirrorwork, an anthology of the best Indian fiction in English during
the fifty years after India's Independence.