Tales I tell myself

Welcome to my blog. I am Subash, a journalist/editor who was with the Hindu Group for the last 24 years, with The Hindu Sunday Magazine/Literary review for 12+ years and with the Frontline magazine for the rest.

Though my primary job was as an editor, I have written stuff over the years, mostly reviews and interviews with authors. I did not keep a record of the stories i wrote while I was writing them and only recently I’ve had an urge to collect them and post them under one roof. So, these are the stories I can remember now. Because they mark milestones in a personal journey.

This is specially necessary for me because the Hindu website has gone through several design makeovers with fundamental changes to the underlying structure, so the old links, if any, will not work anymore. And this blog will be a convenient place to point to if anyone is interested in reading a particular story of mine as well as for my own records.

Here you’ll find stuff I’ve written over the past 24+ years, mainly in The Hindu Literary Review, the Sunday Magazine, and a few in the Frontline magazine. I have broadly divided them into books (translations), reviews, interviews, and other miscellaneous stuff.

Comments welcome, and happy reading…

Translations:

2023: The Bharathi I Knew by M.K. Yadhugiri Ammal

Reviews:

2022: Undocumented by Rejimon Kuttappan

2012: Wrecking Ball by Bruce Springsteen

2011: Depths of the Ocean by Susmit Sen

2011: Valley of Masks by Tarun Tejpal

2011: Ms. Militancy by Meena Kandasamy

2010: Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

2006: Theft by Peter Carey

2006: The Match by Romesh Gunesekera