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Mini Krishnan
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‘Everyone who read her was shocked into awareness’: Mini Krishnan, Bama’s first publisher in English
‘Bama’s Karukku, particularly in Lakshmi Holmstrom’s English, drilled a hole in the wall of both religious hypocrisy and caste consciousness.’
Mini Krishnan
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July 13, 1905: A Namboodiri woman is convicted of adultery and made an outcaste. This is her story
The first edition of ‘Outcaste’, the English translation of Matampu Kunhukuttan’s Malayalam novel ‘Brushte’, was published in 1996.
Mini Krishnan
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Not the short story: Did you know of India’s treasure chest of long stories?
A new anthology brings together a selection of this relatively rare form of fiction.
Mini Krishnan
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How to translate the title of a novel into English
A straightforward conversion often misses the nuances, says a translations editor, dipping into her portfolio.
Mini Krishnan
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Why I publish translations of Indian literature
‘Because in them lie our own histories, our sense of identity and belonging.’
Mini Krishnan