Interviews

Dr. Mini Krishnan is a renowned Editor and a compassionate writer. She has been in publishing for more than two decades. She is best known for the translations of Indian literature that she sourced, edited and published first through Macmillan India and now through Oxford University Press where she is the Literary Translations Editor. She was the founding editor of the South Asia Women Writers Website commissioned by the British Council.

A successful publisher of textbooks in all subjects for schools, she has served on the Film Censor Board, the Kendra Sahitya Akademi panel for translation awards and the panel for nominations to the Ramon Magsaysay Award. She is the Concept & Series Editor, Living in Harmony, (Oxford University Press) a Peace & Value Education programme of books for national integration.

From fourteen years of serious journalism to a refreshing debut novel, from Man Asian Literary Prize Long List to Editing a magazine – Manu Joseph is a name to reckon with in the Indian Literary scene today. His delightful first novel ‘Serious Men’ explores the subaltern resentment convincingly through the wily underdog Ayyan Mani and the eccentric scientist Dr Acharya which makes it a brilliant, memorable and compelling read.