Mylapore – By Maa. Aranganathan
Translated from the original Tamil by Nakul Vāc
It came and went like a flash of lightning. The ticket he had purchased was still in...
The God and Kandasamy Pillai – By Pudhumaippithan
Translated by Ramesh Ramachandran
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Melagaram M K Ramasamy Pillai’s only son, Melagaram M K R Kandasamy Pillai alias Chelleppa, was standing at a safe corner...
Worship – By Indira Parthasarathy
Translated by Ka.Naa.Subramanyam
Vaduga Naicken was surprised that a beggar who made his living by going the rounds of the town begging fistfuls of rice...
A Hairy Tale – By Gopikrishnan
Translated by Latha Ramakrishnan
I don’t know what you think of ‘Hair’. For that matter, I don’t know how many strands of hair are there...
The Lifting of the Curse – By Pudhumaippithan
Translated by Ka.Naa.Subramanyam
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The stone statue of the woman stood by the wayside. It is the statue of a grown-up woman, her flesh distilled into stone...
Refugee Girl – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by: Aniruddhan Vasudevan
The girl in the green-yellow-white waitress uniform was a refugee. She could be either from India or Sri Lanka, or perhaps even...
Meals Plus Forty Rupees – By T. Janakiraman
"Money Order? For me?!"
"Yes sir.. for you only!"
"Uthrapathy, you are old enough to be astigmatic.. Take a good look again.. Do you want my...
Mother Earth – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by Padma Narayanan
My father was a strict man. As a boy, I walked and talked quietly whenever he was around and quelled any...
The Exit – By Pudhumaipithan
Translated by E. Annamalai and H. Schiffman
That night Alamu couldn't get to sleep. Her thoughts all came crowding into her brain; an unutterable anguish...
Enemy – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by V. Ramanan
He had not known anything about rearing hens, neither were the hens elated in his captivity. He knew that it was...
