Birth of a Song is a collection of 50 short stories by KS Duggal, one of the leading fiction writers in India today.This is the author's third collection of short fiction in English. His earlier works were: Come Back My Master (Vikas), and Death of a Song (Arnold-Heinemann). K.S. Duggal's short story entitled Come Back My Master figures in the World's Greatest Short Stories.

These stories written originally in Punjabi, the author's mother tongue, have mostly been translated into English by the author himself. He has over 500 stories in 21 collections in the original. They reflect the prevailing milieu in the resurgent India, torn with internal conflicts and external pressures whether it is Punjab in turmoil or the rest of the country blown off its feet by the severe westerly winds.

A master craftsman, every story in the collection has a moment of truth, a moment of aesthetic pleasure. It helps the reader to know the whatness of things before the effects fades away in the quiet. It is a genre close to Mr. Duggal's heartbeat, ingesting both poetry and drama. The stories reflect an inventive strain that is remarkable.