Breaking Free: A novel by Vaasanthi, Translated by N Kalyan Raman, Harper Perennial
Set against the rising clamour for India’s independence, Breaking Free is a nuanced and thought-provoking story of three generations of...
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Oct 20, 20201 min read
The Curse: Stories: A collection of stories by Salma, Translated by N Kalyan Raman, Speaking Tiger
In The Curse, acclaimed author and poet Salma blasts through the artifice of genre and language to reveal the messy, vulnerable and...
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Jan 1, 20191 min read
Heat A novel by Poomani, Translated by N Kalyan Raman, Juggernaut Books
Hailed as one of the great Tamil novels of the last century, Heat brings alive the world of rural Tamil Nadu, its beauty and brutality,...
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Feb 20, 20181 min read
Poonachi, or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan, translated by N Kalyan Raman, Westland
Wrought by the imagination of a skilful storyteller, this deliberate yet complex story of the animal world is about life and death and...
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Oct 30, 20172 min read
The Goat Thief by Perumal Murugan, translated by N Kalyan Raman, Juggernaut Books
Perumal Murugan is one of the best Indian writers today. He trains his unsentimental eye on men and women who live in the margins of our...
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Mar 11, 20161 min read
The Ghosts of Meenambakkam: A novella by Ashokamitran, Translated by N Kalyan Raman, PRH India
One dark and stormy night, Dalpathado unexpectedly crosses paths with the narrator at Meenambakkam airport. The faceless, middle-aged man...
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Mar 11, 20161 min read
Still Bleeding from the Wound by Ashokamitran, translated by N Kalyan Raman, Penguin Random House In
A perfect amalgam of irony, wit and wry humour, Still Bleeding from the Wound is a collection of stories from the greatest living Tamil...
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Dec 17, 20141 min read
Farewell, Mahatma by Devibharathi, translated by N Kalyan Raman, Harper Perennial
Farewell, Mahatma brings together ten tales that introduce us to the brilliance and distinctiveness of Devibharathi’s imagination and...
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Oct 25, 20132 min read
Vaadivaasal: Arena, A novella by CS Chellappa, Translated by N Kalyan Raman, OUP India
Vaadivaasal, a novella published in 1949, is considered as a modern literary classic in Tamil. It describes the events of an afternoon in...
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Aug 11, 20101 min read
Mansarovar by Ashokamitran, translated by Kalyan Raman, Penguin Random House India
Set in Chennai of the early 1960s, Manasarovar is a profound meditation on the human quest for faith and inner peace. Ashokamitran...
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Dec 1, 20091 min read
At The Cusp of Ages by Vaasanthi translated by N Kalyan Raman, IndianWriting
At the Cusp of Ages is a story of women at a crossroads – where millennia meet and disperse. It is a story of women – abject,...
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Jan 1, 20041 min read
Mole! by Ashokamitran, translated by N Kalyan Raman, Orient Blackswan
What happens when a culturally rooted writer from Chennai is transplanted in a small town in the American Midwest of the...
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Jan 1, 20021 min read
Sand and other stories by Ashokamitran, translated by N Kalyan Raman, Orient Blackswan
Written with the deepest empathy for women trapped by an almost absolute lack of resources – financial, intellectual, emotional – these...
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May 14, 19981 min read
The Colours of Evil by Ashokamitran, translated by N Kalyan Raman, East-West Books, Chennai
It was the first collection of Ashokamitran’s short stories to be published in English translation. In the stories in this collection,...
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