Iravu sudar
Soodamani
Soodamani in a short story written in 1975 had compared sexual intercourse to a destructive act akin to
crushing a fresh flower. This is a quite different view from her description of sexual intercourse in her
novel Naangaam Aasiramam written in 1972. She had described it as an act 'enhancing the divinity of
the human body'. Soodamani's views on sexual intercourse changed vastly in her novel Iravuchudar and
successive stories. Iravuchudar is a...