The Magical Lamp

By R.V.Pathy

The main purpose of children's literature is to guide them in proper direction. The children's literature has so far experienced a lot. At the earlier stage, the children's literature was nurtured by the elder writers themselves through the pages of the magazines meant for the whole family.

• Language: தமிழ்
• Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
• Release date: Jan 4, 2021
• ISBN: 6580138806252

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The Magical Lamp

Author:

R.V. Pathy

Translated by - Dr.R.V.Aparajitha

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The Magical Lamp

(Short Stories for Children)

R.V. Pathy

Translated by

Dr.R.V.Aparajitha

Jyothirllata Girija

830 A – First Floor

9th Street

Syndicate Bank Employees Quarters

Annanagar West Extension

Chennai 600 101

Congratulatory message

Dr. R.V.Aparajitha has translated the ten short stories for children and young adults contained in the Tamil book, Maayavilakku, originally written by her father, the renowned writer, Mr. R.V.Pathy, under the title The Magical Lamp. The story is about a magical lamp that goes into the hands of ten different people and how they make use of it. All the stories contain messages and morals for growing children and we all know it is the need of the hour, moral classes having been altogether done away with in educational institutions.

I am given to understand that Dr.R.V.Aparajitha is an Endodontist (Dentist) who is well versed not only in her mother tongue but in English and Hindi as well, possessing great interest in Tamil literature. Mind you, besides these she has a passion for pencil sketching and towards playing the instrument Veena. I wish, when she translates her beloved father’s Tamil books later on, she herself draws the pictures too.

May God shower on this versatile artiste all the best and let her flourish not only as a Dentist, but also as a writer, Veena player, an artist and what not in the coming years.

Jyothirllata Girija

Foreword

Rudra. Thulasidhas

(Ilambharathi)

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Here is a relay-race

I welcome the publication of this book enthusiastically because it has blossomed in apt time. The school going children are more or less confined within limits. They will be eager to receive such reading materials in such solitary occasions. Now-a-days our children are more akin to English reading material than those in vernacular alphabets.

Writing is itself a miraculous activity. When I write the alphabets as CLOUD, it represents the visual experience which I want to convey to my neighbors. When my neighbor reads those alphabets, he also experiences the same perception. If such a single word can communicate my experience, what sort of wonder can be experienced when I compose series of words expressing my experience! That process comes under the category of literary experience.

The process of literary communication to the same age group of the writer finds no strain. Writing to the younger age group of readers requires some experience in choosing the vocabulary and the presentation process. When I propose to write for children, I must transform myself to be a child so as to communicate with some restricted expression. When I write for the elders, there need not be any restriction for vocabulary or thoughts or even the mode of presentation. When I write for children, I have to be conscious of the choice of words and also putting them in proper places so that the children can enjoy the rhythmic process. In children's literature, the conveying process is more important than the content itself.

The main purpose of children's literature is to guide them in proper direction. The children's literature has so far experienced a lot. At the earlier stage, the children's literature was nurtured by the elder writers themselves through the pages of the magazines meant for the

whole family. When the reading habit has been imparted to children themselves, the necessity for the publication of the children magazines arose. It should be mentioned that those children's magazines in Tamil were the off-springs of the popular magazines like Kalaimagal, Kalki,

Kumutham etc., The names of such off-springs were Kannan, Gokulam, Kalkandu, Poonjolai, Ambulimaama, Balamithra etc.,

In the course of time, the children gained skill to contribute the materials to feed such children's magazines. Their literary contributions were in various forms such as short-stories, poems, one-act plays, riddles and so on. Youngsters of all age group took active participation in such a journalistic contribution. The basis for such spirit has been the enthusiasm imparted by

such magazines themselves.

What I meant so far is the atmosphere which enthused the writers for children till the last decade. The social atmosphere has completely changed and so also the process of children's