Product Description Parthiban Kanavu (Parthiban's Dream) was a novel Kalki R. Krishnamurthy penned as a weekly serial beginning 1941 in Kalki, the magazine that he had founded. Written in simple and elegant prose, Parthiban Kanavu is a breezy fictional historical romance in which good triumphs over evil and the lovers overcome obstacles posed by dynastic affiliations, intrigue and separation to be united in matrimony. The novel was an instant hit and was made into a Tamil film starring Gemini Ganesan, Vyjayanthimala and S.V. Ranga Rao in 1960.Parthiban Kanavu is an important milestone in Kalki's illustrious literary career. It offered tantalizing perspectives of his literary style and what would be his more critically acclaimed works that followed.Vivid descriptions of nature, flora and fauna formed memorable backdrops against which Kalki's gripping plots unfolded. While the stories he told were timeless ones of valour, romance and hope, his characters never conformed to the binaries of good and evil, instead portraying the various shades of grey and ambiguities that encapsulate what it means to be human.Kalki's characters communicated his unequivocal views on politics and war. That religion and politics are an undesirable and combustible combination, that the adverse impact of wars on the environment and civilians far outweighs the political gains, and that civilians ought not to be harassed when a war is under way - are recurring themes. About the Author KALKI KRISHNAMURTHY (1899-1954) is among the most renowned Tamil writers. He was a novelist, journalist and music critic. This polymath, who also participated in India's independence movement, was a recipient of India's highest literary honour, the Sahitya Akademi Award, which he received for his social novel Alai Osai (The Sound of the Waves). His writings include over 120 short stories, ten novellas, five novels, three historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews.NANDINI VIJAYARAGHAVAN - analyst, columnist, author and translator - was born and raised in Chennai and lives in Singapore. As of 2021, she is the Head of Research at Korea Development Bank. Parthiban's Dream is Nandini's second translation. The novel's prequel, Sivakamiyin Sabadham (Sivakami's Oath) was her first. Nandini co-authored with former Thomson Reuters fixed-income specialist, Umesh Desai, Singapore's first corporate biography, The Singapore Blue Chips. Her columns on finance and the economy have appeared in BusinessLine, The Hindu and Financial Express. Nandini holds postgraduate degrees in Economics and Finance from Tufts University and London Business School, respectively and is a CFA charter holder. She blogs at www.litintrans.com.

Parthiban's Dream: Novel

Literature & Fiction

Krishnamurthy, Kalki

Genre Fiction

Ratna Books

Basic Ethics

Thi. Janakiraman

News! How much newness does any news have? What news-value do the non-new things carry? There are things, incidents and people that do not make news. They do not possess enough newness for the news-hungry world. These things and beings are useless for the manufacturers of news. 
Among these manufacturers is a young sub-editor interning with a Marathi newspaper who looks at things that are mundane - no use for the news. Does he discover something in the mundane? Does he find anything more meaningful there than just making up news? This is The Story of Being Useless. 
A writer writes or types. Where does his writing start and where does it end - and what is in between? What does he want to say and what does he want to hide? What lies beneath this façade of letters and words and sentences? What holds together the structure within? Why is this structure created in the first place? What about the writer who has written this novel or novella? Has he really created something novel or is it just a re-rendering of the old? 
This is a story of a typist, well, a writer, who wrote 'The Story of Being Useless' and who is writing Three Contexts of a Writer.

The Story of Being Useless & Three Contexts of a Writer: Novellas (Ratna Translation)

Dongare, Avadhoot

Mirror in the Hall and other stories: Short Stories (Ratna Translation)

Joshi, Prakash Bal

The Bells are Ringing in Haridwar: Three novellas (Ratna Translation)

Mukundan, M.

'These stories by Appadurai Muttulingam are serious, funny and piercingly honest. Through retelling the stories of the ordinary, common man in his daily struggles for survival, the characters in these stories force us to take a second look at ourselves; they force us to consider ourselves in the shoes of folks who face social, economic and political hardships in their lives. 'Appadurai Muttulingam's writing style reminds one of R.K. Narayan. He uses terse, sinewy sentences and doesn't bother the reader with gratuitous language or details. His mission is to narrate a story, and he does it in a take-it-or-leave-it manner of folk tales, in which logic and superfluous information are sacrificed for the sake of a delightful read and a universal message.' MOHAMMED NASEEHU ALI, Author of The Prophet of Zongo Street

After Yesterday and other stories: Short Stories (Ratna Translation)

Muttulingam, Appadurai

Literary

Meeran's Stories

தோப்பில் முஹம்மது மீரான்

'Appadurai Muttulingam's short stories, translated from Tamil to English, are little jewels packed with many riches. Appadurai's characters take us into the heart of the human condition where love guides them, for better or for worse. One can't help but be moved.' 
DOLLY REISMAN, Writer, Canada\n'With each Appadurai Muttulingam story, you enter what feels like an intimate circle of seekers seated around a fire. These tales have a fable-like quality: timeless and richly imaginative. And yet, Muttulingam's wicked humor grounds his work in modernity, while the poignant notes he strikes deliver urgency. Rarely is so much wisdom delivered in so sly and entertaining a manner. The stories have a way of transporting you from your dull, mundane existence. It is a journey worth taking.' 
GERI MODELL, Writer, USA

Password and other stories: Short stories

The Stepmother and Other Stories

Laxmibai Abhyankar

Ashokamitran's Chennai: Short stories

Ashokamitran

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