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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...
Oct 30, 20172 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...
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...
Mar 11, 20161 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...
Dec 17, 20141 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...
Oct 25, 20132 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...
Aug 11, 20101 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,...
Dec 1, 20091 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...
Jan 1, 20041 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...
Jan 1, 20021 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,...
May 14, 19981 min read
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