Pavithra Srinivasan
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Pavithra Srinivasan

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Pavithra Srinivasan is a writer, journalist, artist, translator and editor—not necessarily in that order. She is fascinated with History, and writes children's fiction for adults. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines; she’s been a historical-fiction columnist for Young World, The Hindu’s supplement for children. Her column was named Yester Tales. She was also an organic farmer on her farm, situated in a tiny village in the Thiruvannamalai District. She’s written about her farming adventures in The New Indian Express, under the column How I Met My Farm. She was movie and music critic for rediff.com, and entertainment journalist with film magazines such as Southscope, Ritz and Inbox1305. She also wrote extensively for Chennai’s lifestyle magazine, Eves Touch, and worked as Fiction Editor with Katha India, a publishing house devoted to translations, where she edited full-length translations of authors such as Jeyakanthan, Sundara Ramasamy, Damodar Mauzo, Imayam and others (one of which made it to the long-list of Crossword Awards). She’s had a column in Culturama magazine called Passage to India, where she wrote historical fiction for an adult audience. She’s written more than a hundred features/stories/interviews for The Hindu, The New Indian Express, The Times of India, Deccan Chronicle, Chandamama, Gokulam, Prodigy and other magazines. She has to her credit a collection of historical short-stories for young adults, Yester Tales (Viswakarma Publications, 2017), and another: Little-Known Tales from Well-Known Times: Back to the BCs, (Helios Books, 2012); two historical novellas Swords and Shadows and I, Harshavardhana (Pustaka Digital Media, 2016); the translation of Kalki’s epic historicals, Sivakamiyin Sabadham (Helios Books, 2012; Tranquebar Press, 2015) and Ponniyin Selvan (Tranquebar Press, 2014; Zero Degree Publications, 2019; Taar Maar Productions, 2019). The English translation of M Chandrakumar’s famed work Lock Up has also been done by her: Lock Up (Westland, 2017). She has translated Jeffrey Archer’s short-story collection into Tamil, Mudivil oru Thiruppam (Westland, 2009) as also Amish Tripathi’s acclaimed Shiva Trilogy (Westland, 2014, 2015) in addition to the Tamil version of Scion of Ikshvaku, Ikshvaku Kulathondral (Westland, 2016) and Sita: Warrior of Mithila (Westland, 2018). Yet another translated work is They Came; They Conquered (Zero Degree Publications, 2018) of Writer and cartoonist Madhan. One of her stories is a part of the collection, My Mom is My Hero, (Adams Media, 2010) edited by Susan Reynolds. Pavithra is also a miniaturist—an artist who draws miniatures. She produces accurate representations of historic landmarks; her work on Chennai was featured in various national newspapers such The New Indian Express, The Times of India and The Hindu: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/tales-of-chennai-in-words-and-miniatures/article6761045.ece She’s into zentangling, crystal-work and embroidery, as well. To get regular updates about her work, check out her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pavithra.srinivasan

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