The Mozhi Prize anthology is a collection of stories translated from Indian languages to English by emerging translators. The second edition handpicks stories in five languages from the babel that is India. Each story carries a varied breath of regional life: Fahmida Riaz's Flights of Birds rendered with elegance and subtlety, Mannu Bhandari's The Lonely Woman, a superbly paced narrative with a heart-breaking denouement, Ajithan's Still Eye, alive with mood and voice; A. Muttulingam's The Elephant's Salary, full of humour, sharp dialogue and understated drama; and Nirmal Verma's A Sliver of Sunlight, a wistful monologue that leaves a glimmer of warmth amid life's coldness and more. 

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"This has been a journey of discovery across India's diverse narratives,  each entry a unique world inviting deep exploration and rich discussion...it struck me that the stories themselves got more interesting as we traveled from the North to the South." ~ Jenny Bhatt, Gujarati-English translator 

"The experience of reading the English translations was not just 'seamless' in the sense that one didn't find oneself constantly being made aware of the fact that one was reading a translation, one could 'lose' oneself in the story-but also one where the English text could be said to possess literary qualities in its own right" ~ Rahul Soni, Hindi-English translator and editor 

"What a privilege to travel through a wonderful world of stories from the subcontinent, each one, a slice of reality, mirroring ethos of a region in a particular time and to take in flavour of language spoken there." ~ N.S. Madhavan, Malayalam writer