“Enda peyr Nilavoli,” opens Nilavoliyil Meenmathar, Ponni Arasu’s Tamil translation of my picture book Mermaids In The Moonlight, originally created in English and published by Westland in February ...

It is Thanvi’s birthday and her parents wait by her bedside to wish her as soon as she wakes up. But they do not know that they have company in the form of a sparrow, a lion, an elephant calf, a puppy ...

The title of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Tamil in the recently concluded Chennai Book Fair invariably brought to a Tamil reader’s mind a scene from the Sivaji Ganesan-starrer Rajapart Rangathurai. “To be ...

One evening, nearly 40 years ago, in Coimbatore, a young man was sitting outside his house, writing at dusk. He was out of work. The atmosphere at home was tense but the writing was going well. So ...