A freelance writer, critic and translator, she is the author of Indian Fiction in English: The Novels of R K Narayan, editor of The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories  by Indian Women, co-editor of Writing from India, a collection of Indian stories for young readers, translator and editor of Pudumaippittan: Fictions, an anthology of works by the Tamil writer. Her re-telling of the fifth century Tamil narrative poems Silappadikaram and Manimekalai was published in 1996. She has translated works of many contemporary Tamil writers including Ashokamitran’s Water, Mauni: A Writers’ Writer, Ambai: A Purple Sea and Na Muthuswamy: Waterness. She has also translated Karukku, the autobiography of Baama, for which she received the Crossword Award for Translation, 2000.