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Yashasvi Arunkumar
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This anthology of Tamil stories lay out the rich possibilities of modern fiction in an old language
‘The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told’, selected and edited by Sujatha Vijayraghavan and Mini Krishnan, is deliberately themeless.
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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‘The Curse’: Salma’s short stories talk of women being suffocated in their domestic spaces
This curated collection of short fiction in translation goes into ghosts of lives past and future.
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent
In the original, this Tamil novel foreshadows its famous successors like ‘One Part Woman’, but the English version flattens its registers.
Yashasvi Arunkumar & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Estuary’: Perumal Murugan calls his new novel pure fiction. But we find plenty of truths in it
A school, a college, a son, a father. And a world of ‘rottenness’.
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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What can Poomani’s Tamil novel ‘Vekkai’ tell us about resistance to violence in modern India?
A close reading of the novel, translated into English as ‘Heat’, reveals a symbolic diagnosis as well as prescription.
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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‘Many translators think authors know nothing about translation’: Tamil author Poomani
‘But nonetheless, N Kalyan Raman has made a very sincere translation,’ Poomani said in an interview about his novel ‘Heat’.
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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