N Kalyan Raman

Set against the rising clamour for India’s independence, Breaking Free is a nuanced and thought-provoking story of three generations of...

In The Curse, acclaimed author and poet Salma blasts through the artifice of genre and language to reveal the messy, vulnerable and...

Hailed as one of the great Tamil novels of the last century, Heat brings alive the world of rural Tamil Nadu, its beauty and brutality,...

Wrought by the imagination of a skilful storyteller, this deliberate yet complex story of the animal world is about life and death and...

Perumal Murugan is one of the best Indian writers today. He trains his unsentimental eye on men and women who live in the margins of our...

One dark and stormy night, Dalpathado unexpectedly crosses paths with the narrator at Meenambakkam airport. The faceless, middle-aged man...

A perfect amalgam of irony, wit and wry humour, Still Bleeding from the Wound is a collection of stories from the greatest living Tamil...

Farewell, Mahatma brings together ten tales that introduce us to the brilliance and distinctiveness of Devibharathi’s imagination and...

Vaadivaasal, a novella published in 1949, is considered as a modern literary classic in Tamil. It describes the events of an afternoon in...

Set in Chennai of the early 1960s, Manasarovar is a profound meditation on the human quest for faith and inner peace. Ashokamitran...

At the Cusp of Ages is a story of women at a crossroads – where millennia meet and disperse. It is a story of women – abject,...

What happens when a culturally rooted writer from Chennai is transplanted in a small town in the American Midwest of the...

Written with the deepest empathy for women trapped by an almost absolute lack of resources – financial, intellectual, emotional – these...

It was the first collection of Ashokamitran’s short stories to be published in English translation. In the stories in this collection,...