Ministhy S. is an IAS officer working in the Uttar Pradesh cadre. She translates between three languages: Malayalam, English and Hindi. Her translations have featured in the Green Book Award longlist (Dattapaharam, V. J. James, 2024); JCB Prize for Literature shortlist (Anti-Clock, V. J. James, 2021), Crossword Book Jury award shortlist (The Unseeing Idol of Light, K. R. Meera, 2018) and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature longlist (The Poison of Love, K. R. Meera, 2017).
Apart from these, she has translated Do Not Ask the River Her Name by Sheela Tomy, and Nireeswaran and The Book of Exodus by V. J. James. She has also done the English transliteration of four cantos, Sundar Kanda, Kishkindha Kanda, Aranya Kanda and Lanka Kanda, from Goswami Tulsidas's Sriramacharitmanas.
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