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Daniell Comes to Judgment: New and Vintage Daruwalla is a collection of short stories by Keki N. Daruwalla, the acclaimed poet-cum-novelist of our time. There are new stories here written especially for this book in a span of less than two months and perennial favourites (of vintage worth) still relevant in today’s changed times. The collection showcases the author’s enduring range. The new stories are first person narratives and, with the exception of one, voices of women—city women—putting into words their moods and memories. The author has deliberately shunned the violence-factor in this collection. In fact ‘Bars’, a story included in this volume, is a commentary on the forces of intolerance straining the social fabric. Coming to the perennial favourites, they are Vintage Keki Daruwalla; vignettes from the vast repository of a wordsmith who can straddle myth and reality with ease and finesse, breathe life into metaphors, coalesce fact and fancy and still sound fascinatingly credible, with his patent black humour well in place. The collection includes stories where fantasy and myth transport one to the pre-language, pre-script era; to amphibious trains and an island of birds. In short, the master storyteller weaves his magic yet again.

Three friends from college — Rahul, Ritesh and Rehan — are living their respective mundane lives. Until one day when an incident makes them come back together after six years. They relive their old memories of when they had joined the college. Their strong bond had helped them deal with college pressures, make new friends, discover love and handle the toughest situations, all the while having the best time of their lives. Ritesh had always sworn by his mantra of GMD that helped him in college when he and his friends had to face difficult professors or bullying seniors and even later on, while choosing his career path and negotiating every challenge that fell in his way. But what is GMD? Who has it in them? And how can one use it to realise one’s potential? Will one incident change the course of life of these three friends? A story of friendship, bonding, revolution and growing-up, The Amigos will resonate with everyone who has experienced strong bonds and long-lasting friendships in college and beyond.