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Fourteen Years with Boss

Performing Arts

Reminiscing of a time long lost, Fourteen Years with Boss gives a delightful insight into the workings of the Gemini Studios of Madras ”one of the most influential film-producing organizations in India ”and its founder, the brilliant and multifaceted S. S. Va...

The Ghosts of Meenambakkam

Fiction

One dark and stormy night, Dalpathado unexpectedly crosses paths with the narrator at Meenambakkam airport. The faceless, middle-aged man from Dalpathado s past is there mourning the unexpected death of his daughter in a plane crash. After they spend a dange...

Still Bleeding from the Wound

Fiction

A perfect amalgam of irony, wit and wry humour, Still Bleeding from the Wound is a collection of stories from the greatest living Tamil writer. Ashokamitran s deceptively simple narratives take the reader deep into the poignant struggles waged by ordinary mi...

Mole!

Tamil fiction

The fictional events narrated in Mole! an English translation of Otran, a novel by Ashokamitran take place within a period of seven months, nearly all of them in the American Midwest. The narrator, a culturally rooted writer from Chennai, is transplanted amid...

Sand and Other Stories

English fiction

This book is a translated collection of 3 novellas, spanning three decades of Ashokamitran s work. The stories are about women trapped by an almost absolute lack of resources (financial, intellectual and emotional). The narrative in all three novellas moves i...