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No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini #foliosociety Architect Basit Deniau’s houses wereby Jayant Kaikini, translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana. Winner of the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Winner of the 2021 National Translation Prize in Prose No Presents Please is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small town migrants. Jayant Kaikinis gaze takes in the people living on the margins a bus driver who, when denied annual leave, steals the bus