COIMBATORE: A passing incident he witnessed about 20 years in the past inspired the citybased fashionable writer, M Chandrakumar, to examine the authority that social buildings attempt to impose on girls’s our bodies.
The autorickshaw driverturned-writer says his 6th novel ‘Veppamatra Velloliyil’ released on Sunday right here, offers with a lady’s psyche in detail.
Chandrakumar, 56, says the incident, which comes to a lady and the best way she dealt with a problem, had stayed with him and precipitated him to write a 50-page tale 10 years in the past. He didn’t submit it then. “About two years in the past, I reworked it and made it into this novel,” says Chandrakumar, whose 2006 novel ‘Lock-up’, in line with his reviews in jail in a false case, used to be made into ‘Visaranai’, a Tamil movie that entered the competitive section at the Venice International Film Festival in 2015.
“I don’t know the names of the folk concerned within the incident. But, it made me think about girls, their alternatives and their freedom,” he says and provides that in his novel he has no longer named any character so that the sense of witnessing a stranger’s lifestyles is preserved for the reader.
The novel speaks about a lady who, after her father’s demise, comes to town to paintings. “The society’s dominant attitude disturbs her. She is not able to take care of it and ends up fighting with her employers and is pressured to quit a number of jobs. After some extent, she gets an perception about her lifestyles, in line with which she takes a choice. But, I've left it to the reader to make a decision,” says Chandrakumar.
Speaking about the ebook’s theme, the writer says these days, a number of fundamentalist forces attempt to dictate what a lady must put on. “They do that within the title of culture. But, culture itself is a product of market forces. Today, clothing is seen as a cultural symbol. But, it is in reality the garment manufacturers and the market that make a decision what garments are market it,” he says.
The autorickshaw driverturned-writer says his 6th novel ‘Veppamatra Velloliyil’ released on Sunday right here, offers with a lady’s psyche in detail.
Chandrakumar, 56, says the incident, which comes to a lady and the best way she dealt with a problem, had stayed with him and precipitated him to write a 50-page tale 10 years in the past. He didn’t submit it then. “About two years in the past, I reworked it and made it into this novel,” says Chandrakumar, whose 2006 novel ‘Lock-up’, in line with his reviews in jail in a false case, used to be made into ‘Visaranai’, a Tamil movie that entered the competitive section at the Venice International Film Festival in 2015.
“I don’t know the names of the folk concerned within the incident. But, it made me think about girls, their alternatives and their freedom,” he says and provides that in his novel he has no longer named any character so that the sense of witnessing a stranger’s lifestyles is preserved for the reader.
The novel speaks about a lady who, after her father’s demise, comes to town to paintings. “The society’s dominant attitude disturbs her. She is not able to take care of it and ends up fighting with her employers and is pressured to quit a number of jobs. After some extent, she gets an perception about her lifestyles, in line with which she takes a choice. But, I've left it to the reader to make a decision,” says Chandrakumar.
Speaking about the ebook’s theme, the writer says these days, a number of fundamentalist forces attempt to dictate what a lady must put on. “They do that within the title of culture. But, culture itself is a product of market forces. Today, clothing is seen as a cultural symbol. But, it is in reality the garment manufacturers and the market that make a decision what garments are market it,” he says.
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March 19, 2018
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