S. Shankar

writer

novelist / cultural critic / translator

I write in different genres because the word is supple and powerful, sometimes more powerful than the sword

Water! (translation of Komal Swaminathan’s full-length Tamil play Thaneer Thaneer)

Seagull Books (India) edition of the translation, published in 2001:

Published the same year in the US by Asian Theatre Journal in a slightly excerpted form.

In 2012 and 2016, the Madras Players staged the English translation in historic Museum Theatre in Chennai. See under Reviews and Media Notices for relevant links. 

Media notice of Water!  performance by Madras Players can be found: here and here.

Cover of original Tamil edition of the play
from the performance of the English translation by Madras Player