Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction he was just as much

he was just as much a man of science and engineering

McKay offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality

Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death

Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy

Large numbers of followers and devotees have continued to throng Sufi shrines seeking blessings and benediction

Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction he was just as muchThe celebrated folklorist Ki. Rajanarayanan (1923 2021) spent over 80 years collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu. This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of "naughty & dirty" folktales!