I didn’t find it hard because I lived in that region for half a decade.Perumal Murugan gets brownie points for painting the scene and landscape with words. For some, it might be hard to read through and certain intricacies with the Kongu dialect and the words used. It is completely a new experience for me to read a novel in one of the regional dialects Kongu Thamizh. Nallupayan chithappa the one character who is rationale, a jerk but always knocks some sense into Kali. When society and people ridicule them equally on various stages of life the mental stress and agony they go through were clearly captured by the Author. I adore the plot for deep and psychological point of a couple for their inability to have a child. He touched upon Villages, their customs, Agriculture, food behaviour and most important of all people their narrow mindedness and openness. Perumal Murugan set the stage there and went backwards to explain the actual reason for Ponna visiting her parents and Kali visiting his in-law’s. The Novel starts with Kali visiting his in-law’s house along with his wife Ponna for a yearly famous 14 days festival and the 14th day of festival plays the pre-climax portion in the book. It is disheartening to see people who are still stuck with their casteist ideas and considering it above all. Well, that set a dramatic stage for Author, his supports and the opposers. Though I fail to see a reason for pushing a writer to Write his own obituary on a Newspaper.

We don’t have any proofs of such event nor the author found any. Though the Author claims this work to be a faction, we are unsure of such event took place. Book Reviews / Tamil Books Maadhorubaagan (Tamil) – Book ReviewĪll the controversies surrounded this book made impossible for me to acquire it for a long time because it was banned in Tamilnadu for various reasons and the major one being caste.

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