Keerti Ramachandra is a teacher, editor and translator of fiction and non-fiction from Marathi, Kannada and Hindi into English. Her translations from Marathi include Vishwas Patil’s Mahanayak (2019) and A Dirge for the Damned (2014) that was shortlisted for the Crossword Prize, Gangadhar Gadgil’s A Faceless Evening and Other Stories (2017), Saniya’s collection Of Closures and New Beginnings (2019) from which this story is taken, and most recently, a collection of Vijaya Rajadhyaksha’s short stories, The Song of Life (2019). Other translations include Joginder Paul’s The Dying Sun and Other Stories (2013) from Hindi and U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Hindutva or Hind Swaraj (2016), from Kannada. She has received the Katha A.K. Ramanujan award for translating from more than two languages.
