In this interview IAS officer and author Ministhy S. discusses her JCB award shortlisted English translation of V.J. James award winning book 'Anti clock' from Malyalam. She is in conversation with Piush Antony, Social Policy specialist at Unicef India.

Penguin Random House published 'Khasakkinte Ithihasam' (Anti clock) is the winner of the O.V. Vijayan award and the Thikkurissi award for its original text in Malayalam.

A philosophical novel that discusses the mysterious problems of life and death. V.J. James's novel Anti-Clock has given an extremely creative twist to these words by Karl Marx :

'"Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time's carcass."

Hendri, the coffin maker, has one goal in life: to see the dead body of his nemesis Satan Loppo being lowered into the coffin he has painstakingly carved. He meets Pundit, a 112-year-old watchmaker who was part of Bose's Indian National Army and is building an 'Anti-Clock', which can turn back time. When Loppo too hears of the Anti-Clock and desires to possess it, the inevitable battle becomes a reality.
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As a civil servant Ministhy has eleven years of experience in public service, she has handled policy formulation at both secretariat and district levels.

Winner of the Hindustan Times Woman of the Year Award 2014, she was honoured for the exemplary work done for the empowerment of women beyond the call of duty. Over the last 18 years, she has been contributing to make the services to the underprivileged more transparent and easier in every sector wherein she was assigned duty.

Her recent translation of V.J. James’ multiple award winning novel, which is also shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature, Anti-clock, from Malayalam to English has garnered widespread attention in 2021.

Dr. Piush Antony holds a Ph. D from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore and has been working with UNICEF as a Social Policy Specialist for the last 17 years. Prior to that, she worked with Save the Children UK and NIAS, Bangalore.

Deeply passionate about rights of children, women and marginalized sections, Piush Antony finds her energy from the many lives she shares with characters across English and Malayalam Literature.

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