It gives us great pleasure to announce that Dr. Vithal Rajan's The Legend of Ramulamma has been listed as a 'Finalist' in the Multicultural Fiction category of the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The Legend... was published by Writers Workshop, last year.

Dr. Rajan has also written another novel, Holmes of the Raj, two plays -- The Anarkali Diary and Varadachary's Annotated Chess Masterpieces (Incomplete), stories for children, "Not So!" Stories for Older Children and a collection of short stories, Sharmaji, Padmashree. All have been published by Writers Workshop, 2006.