trapfall

(ˈtræpˌfɔːl)

a trapdoor that opens under the feet

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Shiv Kumar's last book, for which he received the Sahitya Akademi award, was Trapfalls in the Sky (1986), and the prior one, Subterfuges, appeared during a flurry of Oxford University Press productions in the mid-1970s and is the best known.

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Kumar, Subterfuges, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1976; and Trapfalls in the Sky, Madras, Macmillan, 1986.