I read Short Stories for Young Readers by T. N. Neelakantan. I have to say the stories I read in that anthology were a very good mix of humour and seriousness. The first story "Every life has a meaning" was craftily written. It tracks two separate character's lives. We later find out that those two people's lives, however parallel they seem, are unified and one lends meaning to the other. There is also a thrilling detective story Shankar: The young detective. and the following story about super nova can be read as an allegory for the mortality of men.