81.The Hindu news.

            I have translated a book.  The Hindu news paper was the last of all the interviews and articles I came in.  We thought that the news paper won’t come anymore.  But it did not happen.  At last of all, an author called Akila came from The Hindu news paper.  She came with a note book to interview me.  She first asked what is my name.  Then she asked which class I’m studying in.  Then she asked how the interest came for me to translate the book. “First, l translated a Panchatantra story called ‘The blue colored fox.  The story was like a fox doused in blue die.  I translated that story from my Tamil reader.  My father said that, it was nice.  My father then said me to translate S.Ramakrishnan’s book called Kaal Mulaitha Kathaikal.  It was a collection of small, children’s stories.”

                 She noted it down.  Then I said, “When I went to my native place, Kanyakumari, l took the original book, my note book and pencil with me.  in 15 days, l translated 20 stories.  After six months, I finished translating the whole story book.  It was released on March this year.  My translation was named ‘Nothing but water’.  It was released by Director Balu Mahendra.  I got several awards for this translation, including the ‘Nalli Thaisai Ettum Award’.  I know to read and write Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit and English.”

                 Then I said that I had a blog too.  So, Akila said that she also had a blog.  Then, I straight away went to my father’s laptop to see if she really had a blog.  When I searched, she really had a blog.  Then Akila told me to read her blog.  She said that she would also read my blog.  Then she took some photos of me and went away.