An explosion of threats and attacks followed and Murugan was driven from his teaching job in Namakkal. The book won acclaim in literary circles, but it generated outrage among some conservative followers of the BJP party, the Hindu-nationalist party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who denied that such a practice exists and saw the book as an attack on rural Hindu morality. Longing for a child, the woman participates in a local religious festival in which, for one night, unrestricted sex is allowed to anyone. One Part Woman, set in a small village, concerns a childless couple. His two best-known are the novels One Part Woman (2010) and The Story of a Goat (2017). Unlike many urbanized, Anglophone Indian writers known in the West, Murugan is a product of village India (his parents were farmers) and his works are set in that world. He writes in Tamil, one of India’s 22 officially recognized languages. It is good to be reminded now and then what a price in personal risk many artists face in the pursuit of their work, and what courage it takes to persist.īorn in Namakkal District, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Perumal Murugan is an Indian professor of literature and the author of 11 novels and several collections of poems and short stories. $17.įor most of us, the greatest risk in the writing of fiction is that of our labors scorned or ignored, or, even if we are published, the tragic fate of the remainder table. Translated, from the Tamil, by Aniruddhan Vasudevan. The Tamil version of Pyre, under the title, Pukkuli, was dedicated to a young man murdered in his community for making an inter-caste marriage.
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