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Catherine Thankamma is a retired associate professor, writer and translator, her tours de force being Kocharethi: The Araya Woman (winner of the 2011 Crossword award) by India’s first tribal novelist, the late Narayan, and the path-breaking novel Pulayathara by Paul Chirakkarode. Her own collection of short stories, A Kind of Meat and Other Stories, came out in 2025.