I am basking in the glow of having finished a long satisfying novel. மோக முள் by T.Janakiraman. It is a 660 pages opus which took me a month to read, because like all extremes, i need to taste it morsel by morse.
in no one day could i read more than 25 pages, before which i became overwhelmed, not only by the language, but by the message and the revolutionary thought so well presented by the author.
something that i experienced only when i read பொன்னியின் செல்வன்.
மோக முள் is as multi faceted, and just when i thought that the author was losing his, back came he, with a playback swing, harder and firmer, and with yet another aspect of marrying carnatic music with unrequited love.
what a satisfying ending...which i idare not disclose here, for want of spoiling the joy of just yet one more individual who can read tamil, that glorious and ancient of tongues, and which i feel fortunate to be able to read and savour!!
that the story involves the love of a man and woman who is 10 years his senior, and that too in pre independence india, truly makes it a modern classic. ahead of its times when it was published, and (hopefully) etched for the immemmorial future.
thank you T.Janakiraman, and hope you are listening to this muted appreciation, in the writers heaven, where you rightfully should have your place, along with Valluvar, Kalki, Kamban and Shakespeare.
in no one day could i read more than 25 pages, before which i became overwhelmed, not only by the language, but by the message and the revolutionary thought so well presented by the author.
something that i experienced only when i read பொன்னியின் செல்வன்.
மோக முள் is as multi faceted, and just when i thought that the author was losing his, back came he, with a playback swing, harder and firmer, and with yet another aspect of marrying carnatic music with unrequited love.
what a satisfying ending...which i idare not disclose here, for want of spoiling the joy of just yet one more individual who can read tamil, that glorious and ancient of tongues, and which i feel fortunate to be able to read and savour!!
that the story involves the love of a man and woman who is 10 years his senior, and that too in pre independence india, truly makes it a modern classic. ahead of its times when it was published, and (hopefully) etched for the immemmorial future.
thank you T.Janakiraman, and hope you are listening to this muted appreciation, in the writers heaven, where you rightfully should have your place, along with Valluvar, Kalki, Kamban and Shakespeare.
