Shelvy Raj was born in 1960 as the son of Devassi and Clara in Orumanayur village in Trichur district in the state of Kerala, India.
Mulberry was based in Calicut and its headquarters at 25 Arya Bhavan, S. M. Street was a hub for several literary and cultural icons of Malayalam during the 1990s.
Mulberry also frequently published translations of foreign titles, introducing several great writers to Malayali readers.
[5] Mulberry translated the works of Nikos Kazantzakis, Kahlil Gibran, Federico García Lorca, Erich Fromm, Simone de Beauvoir, Irving Stone, Pablo Neruda, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jorge Luis Borges, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Colin Wilson and Osho among others.
[2] They also published works of several prominent Malayalam writers such as Satchidanandan, Nitya Chaitanya Yati, M. N. Vijayan, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, T. Padmanabhan, V. K. N., Punathil Kunjabdulla, C. V. Balakrishnan, P. Surendran, T. V. Kochubava, N. Prabhakaran, P. K. Parakkadavu, Kalpatta Narayanan, V. R. Sudheesh and Asha Menon.
[2] Some of the titles Mulberry published are Mrigasikshakan by Vijayalakshmi, Kochiyile Vrikshangal by K. G. Sankara Pillai, Christmas Marathinte Veru by Aymanam John and Euthanasia by Benyamin.