Every story may read like another story in translation too. “Every story would be another story and unrecognisable if it took up its characters and plot and it happened somewhere else” said Eudora Welty, the American writer. What makes this story remarkable is the jocular way it is told until the very end when it takes a sad turn. Finally, when modernity catches up and when the wells are filled with rubble and levelled, an old man tries to make a statement by jumping into one of the wells that is about to be filled up. The final story of the book, written by Shriram, is about people who jump into wells but survive.
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This is the work of a consummate storyteller, full of humour and compassion. She, however, nonchalantly dismisses this and says the governor is just like one of us. The result is that the proud lady comes to be called Governor Pedda. When she finally arrives, she shakes hands with Pedda. The governor is Fatima Beevi and hence the entire neighbourhood, overwhelmingly Muslim, is eagerly awaiting her arrival. Meeran Maideen’s ‘Governor Pedda’ is about the visit of the governor to the locality in which Pedda lives. The conflict here is between two desperately poor people. In the story, the woman whose petition he writes is full of gratitude first but later, when he asks money for his labours, she becomes quarrelsome. Imayam’s scribe, on the other hand, appears to be a gentle person who usually soothes his customers with sugary words before he writes their petitions to the Tahsildar. It bristles with nettles of truth and they compel you to grasp them and feel the searing pain. It is impossible to brush the story aside as yet another indictment of our unjust system. He is falsely implicated by the police and his wife is forced to start the brewing again. It is about a person who used to brew illicit liquor but has now given up his profession. Nagarajan, Jeyamohan and more.Ĭho Dharman’s ‘The Scar’ is not an easy story. The other masters are all here - Pudumai Pittan, Janakiraman, Ashokamitran, Indira Parthasarathy, Jayakanthan, G. This is easily one of the finest short stories ever written in Tamil.
Within the space of those few minutes and the confines of that melee, we encounter a woman who exudes sexual fulfilment, another, prickly frustration, a pubescent girl whose wide-eyed innocence is bewitching, and, on a different plane, the underlying caste tensions between the women and a man they meet on the way. The singer returns home, managing to sing only the first line. One of them starts a song but her recital is continuously disrupted by chatter and distractions.
It portrays some Brahmin women returning home after a bath in the river. Madhavaiah’s ‘Kannan’s Grand Mission’, written in 1925, exemplifies this. Though Tamil writers started late, they instinctively realised the residual mystery of the moment that a great short story captures and freezes for readers.Ī. The anthology tries to register these changes through the works of some of the most sensitive Tamil writers. The landscape of Tamil Nadu has dramatically changed in these 100-odd years and so have its people.
But, in the final story, the juddering of bulldozers can be heard at a distance. Oil lamps flickered at night, bullock carts carried people, and women would walk some distance to bathe. The earliest short story in this collection dates back to 1913. The anthology features 88 writers, the oldest born in 1872 and the youngest in 1972. Many are distinctly Tamil and will be read for their unique flavour. The choices are impeccable, a few of them absolute gems that will find a place among the world’s best. I was prepared to be disappointed but, to my utter delight, I found a great many of my favourites in the collection.
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