Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer. To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. It must also be in the original packaging. To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. If 10 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund or exchange. Vidya Subramaniam is her pseudonym and her real name is S.Usha. A self taught artist, she has developed a penchant for the brush, lending a creative touch to her Murals. When she is not writing she wields the brush with as much finesse and elan as her pen. Her historical fiction novel "Uppu Kanakku" is translated into English titled "A Fistful of Salt." Two of her short stories have also been translated and featured in a book titled 'Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction'. Born and brought up in Chennai, she has a hundred books to her credit and has won a slew of awards including Tamilnadu State Award for her short story collection "Vanaththil Oru Maan."Īn anthology of her short stories has been translated into English titled 'Beyond the Frontier'. Vidya Subramaniam has been writing Tamil novels and short stories for over four decades. The collection also has two anecdotes from the freedom struggle and one from mythology that are suprisingly so apt for the Sangam poems. Falling in love, keeping it a secret from parents, making plans to elope, honour killing, living together, swooning for someone without revealing one's love and feelings, pangs of separation, selfless charity, greed and sufferings of a wounded soldier are some of the themes.įrom the scores of poems available, Vidya Subramaniam has cherry picked 20 poems (12 from akam and 8 from puram) and recreated it in a contemporary setting. A close reading of the Sangam poems reveal that the themes and settings are applicable even during our times. The two are further divided into seven genres with each having its own unique flavour. Simply put the internal and the external. For the uninitiated, Tamil literature, particularly poetry flourished during the glorious Sangam period (600 BC to 300 CE as per Wikipedia) Sangam poetry is divided into 'akam' and 'puram' that broadly translates into poems on love/eroticism/emotions/relationships and kings/war/heroism/external affairs/public life. Each story in this anthology is based on a Sangam poem. Kodichchi' is a collection of Tamil short stories written by Vidya Subramaniam.
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