Kadaisi Punnagai

The bimonthly magazine Indian Literature published by the Sahitya Akademi, Indian Literature, has recently published stories in English, Oriya, Assamese, Hindi and Malayalam. This volume contains 11 quality short stories that have been translated into Tamil and published in magazines such as Thamarai, Chemmalar and Veeta Ettum without losing the essence of the original story or its flavor. I. Kathaippitthan, a retired engineer from the Public Works Department, has been writing in literary magazines for the past twenty-five years. His hometown is Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district.