Suneel Krishnan – Meet
Vishnupuram Literary Circle members and friends are pleased to meet Tamil Writer Suneel Krishnan on its continued series of Ka. Naa. Su. discussion forum on Mar 18, 2023. He is known for both fiction and non-fiction and got the Sahithya Akademi Yuva Puraskar award for his short story collection – Ambu Padukkai. He writes about…
Review : Trial By Fire And Other Stories
The stories in the Trial By Fire collection, written in Tamil by Jayakanthan and translated to English by Andy Sundaresan, are not anything new. They rail against Tamil Nadu’s obtuse social customs that are blindly followed, its wealth inequality, and the asinine expectations individuals have for each other. Jayakanthan, however, was among the first to…
GOPALLA GRAMAM – CHAPTER 37
(Author: Ki. Rajanarayanan Translation: Radha Soundar & R.S. Saha ) The locusts left as suddenly as they arrived. One sign of the insects’ arrival and departure was the feces they left at the roots of the trees. Second, no vegetation had been spared. It was as though green no longer existed. Even a tiny sprout…