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Eleanor comes to India to research the history written by East India company. As Thippu's spy declares the mysteries of this story won't be answered by reality, Nicholas searches answers for Eleanor's problem in history and Griffith finds Eleanor's husband in her stories. A new novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Rajan Magal and Bagheerathiyin Mathiyam. Weaving together reality and history together, Ba. venkatesan's characters fr...

A new novel by Poet Anandh. Even though the narrative takes us on a trip through wild labyrinths, it ends with us facing an endless space where no tracks are left. The author intervenes like a scale that measures endlessness with knowledge and more questioning.

A new novel by pioneer writer Thoppil Mohammed Meeran. Thuraimugam is the story around a harbour. It is told as if the waves are telling stories. Each of the lives that are built around the harbour are told in the language of a beating heart. A classic tale about tears behind joy and the dust below crowns.

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This novel diverts the artistic vision of seeing folk deities from the perspective of humans. The novel makes us realize that there is no such thing as a worthless life. Ordinary men move to another level , through their sublime actions. The novel depicts an undiscovered land and an unheard language to reveal the goodness that is hidden in our inner selves.

The number of novels based on traditional Tamil sports are very few. Sevalkalam, is one such novel, based on Sevalkattu or rooster fight, a Tamil sport with long historical records. Written in a lively spoken Tamil, the novel weaves the sport and equally interesting life events together. The novel also shines in celebrating the innate goodness of its characters, which is a relief in our times.

A new novel from writer Devakanthan well-known for his books Kanavuchirai and Kanthil paavai. The novel portrays the life of a man named Kalaaban through eleven years. With chapters perfect enough to be read as individual short stories, the novel talks about migratory life on different sides of the sea, as well as over the sea. The seas play an important role in the novel seperating and uniting people. Devakanthan's mesmerising language couple...

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...

Koonan Thoppu is a novel written by Sahitya Akademi awarded writer Thoppil Muhammed Meeran. First published in 1993, the novel has impacted numerous readers over the years. Meeran writes with extreme nuance about a world he knew by experience. Standing opposite to the realm of imagination, Meeran still took Tamil literature to a novel terrain. Filled with as many thorns as flowers, he created a new school of progressive literature, that invite...

Anjuvannam Theru is a novel by acclaimed Tamil writer Thoppil Mohammed Meeran. It is a classic, where the author is intimate enough to the events, but still stays away at a safe distance as a storyteller. It has characters closer to real life, stuck between the orthodoxy and modernity of religious ideas. The tragedy is that they have no say over which way their life flows. They just run along with it, stabbed to death and are dragged to sky an...

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...

Thi. Janakiraman is one of the pioneers of Tamil novel. Anbe Aaramuthe can be considered as the most mainstream of his novels. Not just because it was written as a series in a magazine, but as it has dramatic turn of events. Anandasami, runs away right on his marriage day. After three decades wandering around as a monk, he returns to the same groom. Two people turned away from a marriage, reunite as parents to a daughter not born to them. Thou...

Uyirthen is an idealistic novel. It strongly expresses the women situation. Anusuya and Sengamma represent the two different qualities of a woman's mind. Anusuya is frank and expressive. She is an exterior nature of women. Sengamma is made of secrets and her life is made of intense emotions and she is the interior nature of Women. However different they are, they have no difference in showing their humanity and love towards men. That love make...

Writer Sharmila Seyyid's second novel after her well-received debut Ummath. Panicker pethi is the story of a woman stuggling amongst men to establish herself. Sagarwan, calls herself as the granddaughter of Panicker, the mahout. She leaves her husband, who insulted her, and works hard to care for her family and gather wealth. Panicker's elephant was a living animal, and Sagarwan's elephant is invisible, with many names like hard work and hope.

The novel by M.V.Venkatram starts with a realistic sadness and goes onto become a text that plays out ideas like Karma, Rebirth, Transcending the birth cycle frozen in Indian spriritual minds. It's an attempt to construct a fictional replica of the spiritual search with the lives of the characters Sadhasivam, Raja, Rani, Leela and Gopu. It reminds us of the likes of thirumoolar and their spiritual discourse.

Religious institutions are trying to destroy the indigenous knowledge gained from the lives of the coastal people and build a culture that is narrow and exploitative. The search of a boy who escapes this cultural invasion and seeks to trace his ancestral heritage, continues unabated into his old age. This is the central thread of the novel. The novel re-reads the remnants of the myths that linger in coastal life, culture and language. The nov...

Writer, poet salma's second novel. Salma's novel is filled with the stories of personal life of women, which the outer world has not much knowledge of. A melancholic world and how one overcomes it with time is portrayed realistically in the novel. The language and this world are new and might not be pleasant to conservative minds. But when the chains of conservative oppression are broken, there is a flood of narratives that are unleashed. The ...

Devibharathi is one of the leading writers of Tamil today, and Natraj Maharaj is indubitably his best till day. Reality and Magic of Imagination are woven inseparably through the narrative. The novel delves into the depths of human psychology and explores the social reality outwards, a journey at the same time in both these directions is achieved by Devibharathi with an ease, similar to the way language flows through in a poetic manner through...

Ba.Venkatesan's works never fail to give the reader an unique experience with their narratives. 'Baaheerathi's noon', his new novel is no less, with a magical experience along the lines of the dreams one experiences in the siestas of Latin American novels. It blends history and fiction, names are not merely tags, but the chain links in history that takes us through the labyrinth of time in various directions.

Thi.Janakiraman wrote this novel as a series on the magazine 'Kanaiyazhi'. It was published as a book posthumously. Poet Sukumaran the editor Thi.Janakiraman's collected short stories says Thi.ja was never tired of celebrating humanity in his works. Humans are the central themes of his works, bound in their situations and filled with emotions. It's an unique novel among his other novels. The theme is abstract and the abstractness makes it mo...