T.Padmanbhan is a living legend of Malayalam short fiction. He has written more than 200 short stories in his long literary career of over 70 years. Stories presents 30 fascinating stories from the master craftsman of short fiction in Malayalam, T. Padmanabhan. The selection is made from his repertoire of more than 200 short stories, including his latest collection published in 2019. While most of the stories in T. Padmanabhan’s oeuvre celebrate the culture of Kerala, they are overarchingly universal in that they speak of the ‘human’ as well as of the interconnectedness of our tangible and intangible worlds with the rest of nature.