Periaswamy BalaswamyPERIASWAMY BALASWAMY retired from active teaching as Professor of English in 2006 after teaching at the collegiate level for four decades. But he has continued with his first passion since his school days - his love for and enjoyment of modern Tamil iction. Realizing that the teachers of English serve as a vital link between the creative writers of Tamil and international readers who can access Tamil classics only through English, Balaswamy has turned a committed translator. He has translated a couple of Janakiraman's short stories ('Mulmudi' and 'Natarajakkal') for academic journals, before venturing into the ambitious project of the translation of 'Sembaruthi'. He has published two books and twenty-five articles in his professional career on a variety of subjects related to American and English literature, besides Indian Writing in English. His current interest in scholarly research is the critical analysis of our ancient epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, in the light of postmodern critical theories such as myth criticism, subaltern studies and post-colonialism. Read More Read Less