Imayam(Translated from the original Tamil by Prabha Sridevan)
The first story ‘Over in a Moment’ offers a peek into the lives of a middle-aged couple. The wife, Kamatchi, feels her life has ‘everything but salt’ as she has an unsatisfactory sex life.
Imayam(Translated from the original Tamil by Vasantha Surya)
The anthology has a larger pedagogic purpose and is part of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation’s initiative to identify and translate Tamil literary works into English to ‘enhance the reach of Tamil antiquity, tradition and contemporaneity and enrich world literature’.
Vaasanthi(Translated from the original Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman )
The novel’s frame story unfolds as a personal investigation: did the narrator’s mother commit suicide by jumping into a lake in Kodaikanal as the police inquiry had concluded, or was she killed? If so, by whom and why? The main story is complex and compressed.
Ponneelan. Translated from the original Tamil by J. Priyadarshini
The narrative of Black Soil builds on the idea of the recognizability of lives and establishes its referentiality to the social and political atrocities of young, Independent India.
C. N. Annadurai(Translated from the original Tamil by Ramakrishnan V.)
C N Annadurai (1909-1969), popularly known as ‘Anna’ (elder brother), is one of Tamil Nadu’s greatest icons. His charisma and ideology resonate in Tamil politics even today.
Indira Parthasarathy(Translated from the original Tamil by T. Sriraman)
In the Author’s Preface, Parthasarathy presents his play as exploring the ‘theme of mutually contradictory dispositions of the various characters’ going beyond ‘a mere narration of historical events’.
Translated from the original Tamil by K. S. Subramanian
The first piece in the present collection of articles on Chennai was written in 1998 and the compilation in Tamil, Oru Parvaiyil Chennai Nagaram (‘Chennai at a Glance’) took shape gradually over the years.
Sheela Tomy(Translated from the original Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil)
2022
The novel’s supreme virtue is in its thesis that devolution alone will bring about a turnaround for the evils inflicted on any land and its inhabitants. Also noteworthy in the novel is the role of Father Felix Mullakkattil, the officiating priest of the whitewashed Church of the Virgin Mother at Kalluvayal.
Benyamin(Translated from the original Malayalam by Mohammed Hanifv)
Benyamin weaves a poignant narrative about a taxi driver contemplating robbery, only to be confronted by a passenger’s gripping tale about his own father’s honourable choices as a taxi driver.
Manasi(Translated from the original Malayalam by J. Devika)
2023
Consider this description of a woman’s mental state, as she contemplates her reluctance to lie on a bed that she had slept on alongside a man, in the past. It seemed to her ‘like a thin film of dust that collects on the surface of a table…
R. Rajasree(Translated from the original Malayalam by Devika J.)
The novel’s bedrock is formed by the resilient and formidable friendship between its titular characters; indeed, the bite and brio of this relationship shape and colour every other bond, filial or otherwise, making it one of the great renditions of women’s solidarity in Malayalam literary tradition.
Gurram Jashuva(Translated from the original Telugu by Chinnaiah Jangam)
Chinnaiah Jangam’s translation of Telugu Dalit poet Gurram Jashuva’s Gabbilam, a re-writing in itself of Kalidasa’s Meghadutam, is a significant contribution to Dalit discourse in India and to the literatures of the marginalized in any part of the world.
Edited by N. Manu Chakravarthy and Chandan Gowda
In Ananthamurthy’s ancestral village in Karnataka, where he spent a significant part of his childhood and adolescence, the house had a front yard.
Kodagina Gouramma( Translated from the original Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi)
The story is that when Gandhiji came to the estate where her husband worked as a manager in February 1934, she insisted that the Mahatma visit her house too and went on a hunger strike, finally succeeded in getting the great man into her house when she gave all her gold jewels and took a vow to wear Khadi. She was just 21 at that time.
Jayant Pawar(Translated from the original Marathi by Maya Pandit with a Foreword by Amol Palekar)
Two important Marathi texts—Adhantar: The Nowhere People (a play, 1999) by Jayant Pawar and Ringaan: The Full Circle (a novel, 2017) by Krishnat Khot are now available in English.
Laxmibai Abhyankar (Translated from the original Marathi by Ranjana Kaul)
The Stepmother & Other Stories carries a small introductory note on Laxmibai Abhyankar’s life and times. The temporal nature of the book transports the reader to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the absence of a rooted, critical introduction
Anup Singh Beniwal
The overdose of theory served to the students of literature in the name of engendering critical rigour in research and reading has come under serious scrutiny of late.
Prachi Deshpande
The Modi script was non-literary and frequently used as swift encryption in business and administration to maintain accounts
Aamina Ahmad
To uncover these multiple layers and disentangle the warp and weft of the story, Ahmad takes the reader on a journey that starts in 1937 in Lahore and ends there in 1976, in the process giving us a glimpse into the creation of not one but two countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, whose birth is a violent one and coming of age is fraught with brutality and strife amidst the shifting sands of power.
Mitra Phukan
The stories are spicy, and the scope for scandal is much greater because of social strictures.