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...
Mother – by N. Pichamurthi
Translated by E. Annamalai & H. Schiffman
I was traveling on a train. My attention, which was focussed on looking out of the open window...
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...
Fruit with its flower – Vannadasan
Translated by N. Banumathy
When I asked Dinakari ”shall we buy from this shop?” she was busy picking up the flowers of a vaagai tree...
Fantasy – By Sarvakan
Translated by Vasantha Surya
When we reached the National Store, there were no customers at all.
That was one convenient thing about Natesan’s shop. There was...
Chellammal – By Pudhumaippithan
Translated by V. Ramanan
Chellammal had just breathed her last. The pulse waned to a stop and she was reduced to 'a body’, in front...
A Block of Wood and the Sea – By S. Vaidheeswaran
Translated from the Tamil by M.S.Ramasamy
A block of wood close to the seashore. An old, hard-cored one. A toothless, lean, uneven face. If we...
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...
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...
“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...
