I am a graduate of Osmania University. I was lucky that my first writing adventure- a short story- got selected by the Tamil Weekly ''''''''Kalki'''''''' as one of the four stories chosen to participate in the World Short Story Competition that Kalki conducted in conjunction with The Berkley University, California. The next landmark in my writing career was my winning the first prize in the Kalki Silver Jubilee Short Story competition held in the year 1966. Unfortunately, I suspended writing for nearly 20 years when I had to go over to Africa with my husband. Since my return to India towards the end of 1993, I have been trying to wield my pen again. Some of my articles and stories have appeared in the ''''''''Eve''''''''s Touch''''''''. I have in all written only about ten short stories and a few articles. My interest in both Tamil and English literature, and the welcome change in India in its attitude towards translations, have encouraged me to experiment in that field. I am now seriously engaged in translations from Tamil to English and vice versa. I have translated stories for USIS and the British Council for their short story collections. Orient Longmans of India brought out a series of booklets for their young readers. In their series on world leaders I translated for them from English to Tamil the book on Abraham Lincoln. More recently I have been writing short features for The Hindu, a local newspaper of repute both independently and in conjunction with a colleague. We are doing a series of profiles on elderly women writers; these writers, forgotten over a period of time, we feel, deserve to occupy a more prominent place in Indian literature in general and in Tamil literature in particular. My family - my husband, daughter (journalist) and son (lecturer and writer) are interested in literature and writing and give me all the support and encouragement in my writing attempts. One of the deterrents to my writing previously was the fact that I had to depend on somebody to type my hand-written manuscripts. Now, thanks to the home computer, I''''''''m able to compose and edit straightaway on the computer and print them!<<