An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Ringing with the music of India's regional languages, and peppered with wit and social commentary, these stories are windows to the past and its people-the everyday struggles and joys; the ties of friendship and faith; the politics of love and rejection; the intricacies of betrayal and envy; and the conflicts of class and caste-while continuing to be relevant to our present, puncturing the boundaries of time and space.
Mini Krishnan is currently the Managing Editor of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation working with twenty English language publishers to take Tamil to the world through translations of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and on the editorial board of the Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press. Venugopal Menon retired from a successful career at Larsen and Toubro and turned his attention to literary pursuits by publishing a number of English translations of Malayalam short stories, novels and interviews.
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