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Aight years ago through his short story 'Amma Oru Ghodal Perla'. The story caused many cultural shocks in the Tamil Brahmin community during that period. The bane of Tamil Nadu's cultural history is vulgar notions of 'holiness'. In particular, as a section of the society was set aside as 'untouchable', women were also seen as being at the bottom of society. Therefore, it can be nothing but 'psychological murder' as if the woman herself is guilty of the natural phenomenon of menstruation by sequestering her in the backyard for those three days and creating an inferiority complex in her since then. It was this story that also identified the literary and social activist face of Lakshmi ('Ambai').
I met him and asked him to continue giving stories to 'Kaniyazhi'. This is the foundation of our friendship. The wonderful story written as 'The One in the Room' tells the special-data story of a wife who destroys a 'holy establishment' called Thali Kattiyavan! I think that was the first Tamil story written about 'mercy killing'. Lakshmi's recent stories are a disappointment to any later thinker who finds them theoretically sound. These are the compromises made by what were once known as 'progressives'. 'Failed Gods'. Nothing gets diluted when it's squeezed into a company! This disappointment and frustration looms large in his stories If Lakshmi had thought, she might have ended up as a distinguished professor at an 'Ivy League' university.

But she is dedicated to the bottom line of Indian society. That is his mental strength. As far as I am concerned, 'Unbeatable God'. ShareThis is how spoken language has been in history for ages. Meaningful communication is possible only when the silenced becomes language. Such activities of translation can clarify not only the politics of the family but also the politics of everyday life. If this language is only made up of words, then it must be said that it is not. It can be a language that takes the form of words, pointing to silences, non-verbal signals, gestures, body language, music, painting, cinema. Whether it is a language that communicates with, touches the other, and creates reactions in the touched person is difficult to answer. |
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