Summary of the Book
This is the third of five volumes planned, with 87 writers from 23 languages of India. Two of them, Hot is the Moon and Being Carried Far Away were published earlier. This volume contains selected works of writers from Malyalam, Urdu, Telugu and English, along with interviews of the writers. The editor of the series is Dr C S Lakshmi.
The writers in this volume were chosen by language experts who support and help SPARROW in its various projects. Tamil poet Sukumaran gave us a list of names of Malayalam writers from which we chose the names of writers, and the dialogues with the writers in Malayalam were conducted by Renjini Lisa Varghese, Mini Sukumar, Anitha Thampi and V M Girija. The literary texts and the transcriptions were ably translated by J Devika and Gouridasan Nair from Tiruvananthapuram and Divakaran Periyam in Mumbai.
The book is edited by Sampurna Chattarji, well-known writer and poet. Three of her poems are published as a Postscript. Menka Shivdasani, with her team in The Source, did the design. The layout has been done by Pradeep Mhatre and Amol Khade. Bharati Kapadia has done the drawings as in the other two volumes.