In Hanuman in Hamburg by Vadakke Koottala Narayanakutty Nair, popularly known VKN, brings together nine of his short stories, two of his long stories and a novel, all in the author’s own inimitable translation. In the present book VKN viewed the contemporary world with a critical eye, exposing the pretensions of the intellectual elite, the delusions of the political class, the philistinism of the affluent, the fallacies of the believers and the fantasies of the radically-minded people.