Twilight encounters: The fourth nail and other stories

These stories involve encounters between characters in the realms of ideas and peculiar contexts of life and history. The characters, as is characteristic of Anand's writing, walk into these pages from mythology, religion and history, as well as from familiar sites of strife and struggle in contemporary India, ranging from biology to medical sciences, religion to love, power equations to legal muddles, and from trade union struggles to channel wars.