T his story was published in the Tamil journal Sathangai , no. 12 (July–September 1997). "Ambai" is the pen-name of C. S. Lakshmi. Born in 1944, she has published two collections of short stories in Tamil and a collection translated into English, A Purple Sea (1993). She ...
Everybody appreciates being spoken to in their mother-tongue. If English is your mother-tongue it is easy to be lazy because many foreigners know some English, but have you ever stopped to ask yourself how you would feel if the situation was reversed? How would you react if a foreign ...