The Solitary Sprout
R Chudamani, R Chudamani
Virginia Woolf once described modernist fiction as "a thing you could ruffle with your breath, and a thing you could not dislodge with a team of horses". That precisely captures R. Chudamani's art and craft as a short story writer. A major twentieth-century writer, Raghavan Chudamani (1931-2010) has often been identified as an early feminist among Tamil writers. Subtly radical in her approach to human relations and social issues, her critique ...