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This novel was an experimental work that caused a break in the form that Tamil novels were stuck with. Written by legendary Tamil writer Ashokamitran, the novel is a collection of individual narratives on the background of Emergency. From the common time period of Emergency, the narratives move past that and paint detailed images of a philosophical search, meaning of life and present us with different answers. In Ashokamitran's magic, the time...

Aagayathaamarai is a novel by Ashokamithran, a pioneer of Tamil literature. With Water Hyacinths as metaphors for human dreams, Ashokamitran paints a story of our reality in contrast. The novel is of the happenings that change the life of an youngster named Ragunathan. It is also a portrayal of urban middle class life in general. Through a mix of internal dilemmas and events happening, the novel talks about social-economical relationship...

India 1944-48', a novel by pioneer Tamil writer Ashokamitran, is about two lives - before and after the Indian independence. Published first as two separate novellas 'Bombay 1944', 'India 1948', the work has been now compiled into a single novel as per the author's wish. Reclaiming memories blurred by the unstoppable flow of time, Ashokamitran paints men and their struggles from two varied and important time periods of the nation.

As he negotiates friendships with Tamils like himself, Muslims, Anglo-Indians and girls, and struggles to make sense of peaceful Hyderabad's violent accession to the Indian Union, the horrors wreaked by the Nizam's Razakars, the communal riots, and World War II.

Ashokamitran's Oru Parvaiyil Chennai Nagaram (Chennai at a glance), which is now available in English is a masterly survey of the city by the master himself. In classic Ashokamitran style, the book proceeds district by district, looking at each with affection, sympathy and loads of wit. Chennai emerges in all its colours from this book.Having been a long-term resident of the city of Madras that is Chennai, Ashokamitran made it a central featur...

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