''The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories'' is a short story collection by Indian politician

Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (; ; born 9 March 1956 in London, England ) is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, ...

, published in 1990 by

Viking Press Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquir ...

. The stories collected were written in the author's late teens and initially published in various magazines and newspapers including ''JS'', ''The Illustrated Weekly of India'', ''Eve's Weekly'', ''Youth Times'', ''Gentleman'', ''The New Review'' and ''Cosmopolitan''.

List of Stories

* "The Five-Dollar Smile" * "The Boutique" * "How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink" * "Village Girl, City Girl: A Duet" * "The Temple Thief" * "The Simple Man" * "The Professor's Daughter" * "Friends" * "The Pyre" * "The Political Murder" * "The Other Man" * "Auntie Rita" * "The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer" * "The Death of a Schoolmaster" 1990 short story collections Indian short story collections {{1990s-story-collection-stub