"Classics, medieval literature, and modern books including fiction, non-fiction ... interviews of Tamil authors, stories, and novels will be translated. The books reflecting different sections ...

Excerpted with permission from Sandalwood Soap and Other Stories, Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamily by Kavitha Muralidharan, Juggernaut Books.

The author styles the book as a “short story cycle ... This work of historical fiction tells the little-known stories of Tamil and Malayalee men and women who worked at Sembawang Naval ...