Abhirami Girija Sriram, who lives in Chennai, is an editor and translator. Having worked in publishing for over a decade, she is particularly interested in literature in translation from Tamil and Malayalam. She has reviewed fiction for India Today, The Indian Express and The Book Review, and translated C. Ayyappan’s short story “Branthu” (Madness) for The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing (OUP, 2012). Currently, she is chief sub-editor, Frontline magazine.
Krishna Mohan Shrimali (b. 1947), Professor of History at the University of Delhi, is the author of A History of Pañcāla, 2 vols (1983, 1985); Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern
Hailing from an illustrious family, K. Savitri Ammal (1898-1992) was a well-known Tamil writer. With a good command over both Sanskrit and English, she was a literary scholar, an essayist and a short
