Short Story Collection published by Serving House Books
Shortlisted for Two Prizes
Good happenings in December 2025. Ended the year on a high note as “The Planet Spins On Its Axis, Regardless” was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Prize and also was a finalist for the Eyelands Prize.
I didn’t win either award, but the wonderful and incisive reviews from readers across many platforms — book blogs, Goodreads, netgalley, Amazon, personal emails etc. — gave me much joy. And also made me think again about how much readers bring of themselves to a story and how anything you publish is not really yours any more. It’s open to interpretation, as it should be.
I also had my very first Kirkus Review earlier in the year. Here is an extract:
“A spirit of philosophical inquiry infuses the collection, which provides impressively subtle psychological character portraits.
Indeed, this is the principal strength of Jindal’s stories: to show how the deeply eccentric is an everyday feature of human life.
A thoughtful anthology that offers an insightful peek into the oddities of human experience.”