Category: South Indian Literature
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Marali Mannige – An Epic Experience
Great novels often attempt to offer an experience close to life, but only a few elevate it into the realm of the larger than life. Marali Mannige (Return to Earth in English, Mannum Manitharum in Tamil), written by K. Shivarama Karanth and published in 1941, is one such work. Spanning…
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Ramabanam — A Novella
I recently read Ramabanam, a Tamil novella written by Suchitra Ramachandran. She is an author, translator, and editor of an online magazine, and one of the founders of Mozhi Spaces — an initiative that aims to bring together literatures across Indian languages. One of the reasons I immediately jumped into…
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Sakina’s Kiss – A Review
In one of the interviews, Vivek Shanbhag said he doesn’t write ideas or ideologies, but narrates characters with rich details and stories which emulate life. As a reader, once we finish reading a literary work, our mind tends to simplify the work into a couple of lines and brand it…
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Vamsavriksha: Notes from a Reader
The novel Vamsavruksha by S.L. Bhyrappa may suggest, by its title, that it deals with the institution of family and the crises it undergoes through changing times. But it is not merely a story of familial and personal upheaval — it is a philosophical inquiry into identity, moral agency, the tension between…
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