A Teashop In Kamalapura And Other Classic Kannada Stories

by Mini Krishnan (Editor), Susheela Punitha (Translator)

Overview

A teashop in Kamalapura overflows with the lives, squabbles and sounds of its neighbourhood.

Tansen sorely regrets abandoning his gifted son Bilas Khan in a story set in the Mughal court.

A doting father sacrifices his children's happiness to serve the cruel demands of his upper-caste master.

An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

Ringing with the music of India's regional languages, and peppered with wit and social commentary, these stories are windows to the past and its people-the everyday struggles and joys; the ties of friendship and faith; the politics of love and rejection; the intricacies of betrayal and envy; and the conflicts of class and caste-while continuing to be relevant to our present, puncturing the boundaries of time and space.

How much has Indian society changed?

How much of it has not?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789365698183
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication date:	03/18/2025
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	991 KB

About the Author

Mini Krishnan is currently the Managing Editor of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation working with twenty English language publishers to take Tamil to the world through translations of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and on the editorial board of the Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press.

Susheela Punitha is a Sahitya Akademi Award winner, receiving the first Translation Award for English in 2015 for her translation of Bharathipura by U.R. Ananthamurthy. Bharathipura was also shortlisted for the Jaipur Literary Prize, 2012 and The Hindu Literary Prize, 2012. Her translation of Hundreds of Streets to the Palace of Lights and Other Stories by S. Diwakar (2015) was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award, 2016.