The Stamp Album – By Sundara Ramaswamy
Translated by Ashokamitran
( A story for children)
Rajappa sensed a sudden drop in his popularity. For the past three days everyone had been crowding around...
Kaanchanai – By Pudhumaippithan
Translated from Tamil *
I just couldn’t sleep that night, for no apparent reason. My mind was neither troubled, nor was it overflowing with happiness...
Eldorado – By Sujatha
Translated by Ramesh Ramachandran
Sister-in-law, who opened the door struggled to recognise him. When she did, she was shocked. She stammered, swallowed spittle and asked,...
The window – By Sundara Ramaswamy
Translated by E. Annamalai and H. Schiffman
The cot I was lying on was near a window. I had collapsed on it one evening a...
A Great Epic – by Mouni
Translated from Tamil by N Banumathy
Kittu’s work is over. A great epic which he started to write is complete now. After this, his very...
A Crow’s Story – By S. Vaidheeswaran
Translated by Lakshmi Venkatraman
It was drizzling. I was standing on the terrace. Suddenly a crow hit me on the head and flew away. The...
A Loss of Identity – By Mouni
Translated by Dr. Albert Franklin
He awoke suddenly, wide awake in the night, cleanly awake, as if something had startled him. Trailing across the edges...
Borrow One! – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by Nakul Vāc
I was of the age when I believed that a car would go all on its own if I kept touching...
“Dostoyevsky’s Face” – By Jeyamohan
Translated by Nakul Vāc
No one had expected Pa Kavundar1 to fall that soon! There were very few in our village that did not expect or wish...
“The Plastic God-Box” – By Ambai
Translated by Vasantha Surya
`Krishna, raa…’
Ladling out some rice-and-ghee on the window sill and tap-tapping it once with the back of the ladle, Amma called...
