How many in the Tamil literary world know that a Tamil writer has won the National Human Rights Award in 2002 for her translation of Ku. Chinnappa Bharati's ‘Sangam' (‘Dalit Sangh') in Hindi, from the President of India? That this writer was honoured by the Gemini Academy, Panipat (Haryana) with the Life Time Achievement Award in 2004 for her contribution to literature at the birth centenary celebrations of poetess Subhadra Kumari Chowhan? That the writer has translated Rajam Krishnan's ‘Kurinji Thaen,' Su. Samudram's ‘Oru Kottukku Veliyae' and ‘Veril Pazhutha Palaa,' as well as a few novelettes of R. Chudamani and PVR? That many of her translations of a host of Tamil writers such as Akhilan, Na. Parthasarathy, Srivatsan, Bheeshman, S. Lakshmi Subramanian and Era. Murugan from Tamil to Hindi have won several awards?