Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar have been translating from Telugu to English, and English to Telugu for over 25 years with a focus on the issues of caste and gender. Their translations have come out from leading publishing houses such as Orient Blackswan, Sahitya Akademi, Katha, Stree/Samya, Ratna Books, and HarperCollins. For their contribution to the field of translation, they received the Rentala Memorial Award (2006) and Malathi Pramada Sahithi Puraskaram (2018).