BOOKS THE MAGIC IN HIS REALISM
May 15, 2021
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—Latha Anantharaman
The novelist V. Annamalai (Imayam) wears his Dravidian heritage with pride, but he has also always rebelled against the idea of a Dravidian or Dalit literature. “When you write, it’s literature, but when I write, it’s Dalit literature?” he has famously demanded.
the novel for which he won the 2020 Sahitya Akademi Award in Tamil, (available in English as ), was based on the particular case of a woman, or, if you like, on the many cases that occur daily in India whenever two people marry across caste divisions.
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