ExpertDabbler

It takes enormous control over one’s craft and unsurpassed knowledge in a community’s way of life to write a novel like ‘Gopallapurathu makkal’.

The reason I say this is because the novel does not define a single protagonist, nor a tight plot. But a community’s complete way of life was shown to me effortlessly. And this is possible only with a writer of Ki. Ra’s calibre.

References to ‘Kazhugu Malai’ in the novel made me relate to it even better. That’s my maternal grandma’s native

I love good movies, but i don’t think any one can ever make a movie out of this, except maybe Ki. Ra himself.

I wanted to write this post in tamil, but unfortunately i am not able to install NHM writer. Mine is office laptop

I think it’s only fitting that i write about a superb novel which ends with India’s Independence day, on the eve of one Independence day.

Ki. Rajanarayanan Vazhga! Happy reading! Happy independence day!

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