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When it first came out in 1992 Bama's first novel 'Karukku' shook many who were writing fiction. Karukku with its inherent attributes of a Classic deserves to be republished every decade as a classic edition. For we forget history easily. It has been easy for us to forget the lives of dalits and struggles of women. To disturb the sleep of those who act like heart disturbing things do not exist, to knock them with troubles and to tear open their thick skins, 'Karukku' is needed, as a metaphor and as a book.

The novel narrates the life of Lalitha, a woman who was widowed at an early age due to thepractice of child marriage, which has long affected the lives of children in the Indian socialsystem. The novel, narrated as first person account of the protagonist, provides us with theportraits of some important historical characters and events. Suresh Kumara Indrajith depictsLalitha's inner conflicts along with a critical view of social issues in the narrative.

Wandering. Pathinathan's novel is focused in this single word. This wandering unfolds in thenovel as the migration from Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu and the struggles one undergoes in refugeecamps. The sufferings experienced by the characters of this novel are manifold. The pain of thehumiliation meted out by those who give shelter (?) and the longing for sufficient food are someof the untold stories of refugees' lives. Pathinathan, who tells about the miseries of therefugees, does not shy away from exposing the cunningness of these people. Pathinathanexposes the reality of these men and women exploiting and deceiving each other. The novelgives a compelling picture of the Sri Lankan Tamil refugee camp.

This novel shows how the life of a Dalit boy is different from others and how he lives in a morechallenging environment in many ways. The novel is made up of subtle depictions of the boy'sexperiences as he faces the crises imposed by the caste environment during his growing upyears. Sridhara Ganesan gives a great creative experience describing the seventies lifestyle withits original color in a simple language .

Whether the river Kamba existed or not, now there is a small Mandapam marking its existence.There is some water below the mandapam. This is the image gets enhanced as a novel. A lot ofpeople keep coming into this novel. They are set apart just as the current of the river sets asidemany of its floats on the banks. But the magic of this writing is wonderful in bringing into ourminds the effects of their travelling through the river. The novel strongly shows that theexistence of ordinary people and their quests, aspirations, longings and failures can get a placein history. The epic tragedy faced by the women of our society even in this modern age isrevealed through the novel and shakes us.

The story, which is set against the backdrop of a mysterious discovery in a secluded church in the hills of Kodaikanal - in nineteenth-century British India - and the strange disappearance of the notes written about it, underscores the power and politics behind the collection of knowledge.To stop a Western physician from stealing other people's thoughts, a woman who has sacrificed her unique fantasies to theft joins someone who has lost their history and a nun who gave up her childhood dreams.Like the slow unfurling of a flower with many inner folds, this short novel moves away from the usual linear narrative and offers a fulfilling reading experience,

Wellington is a small town created by the British during 1852-1868 for their military purposes. The novel searches through the lives of the unknown inhabitants of this town. In a way, it reflects the history of a small place. The story revolves around a boy who understands in his teenage period, the town, its people, and the times in which he lives.

This novel revolves around the social movement of caste in the environment of Tamil Nadu andthe rituals, customs and untouchability it celebrates. In the background of his migration to TamilNadu in the early eighties, the narrator deals with the murders that occurred in the castestratum and examines it in his way. This novel unfolds like an investigation in which puzzlesslowly gets solved.The memories and views of people outside Tamil Nadu about the cultural environment of TamilNadu have been recorded from time to time in modern literature. But it can be said that it is forthe first time a fiction emerged from an outsider dealing with Tamil Nadu's casteism and caste-driven killing as its primary issues.Another thread of the novel travels through the lives of non human beings. The peculiarity ofthis novel is that the stories about animals and birds, their bodies, birth, death, extinction, andtheir lives are fabricated with utmost care.

Eleanor comes to India to research the history written by East India company. As Thippu's spy declares the mysteries of this story won't be answered by reality, Nicholas searches answers for Eleanor's problem in history and Griffith finds Eleanor's husband in her stories. A new novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Rajan Magal and Bagheerathiyin Mathiyam. Weaving together reality and history together, Ba. venkatesan's characters freely move between both. Critic and Writer Rajan Kurai praises the novel as Tamil's moment of pride, having a novel that's not less than any other.

A new novel by Poet Anandh. Even though the narrative takes us on a trip through wild labyrinths, it ends with us facing an endless space where no tracks are left. The author intervenes like a scale that measures endlessness with knowledge and more questioning.

A new novel by pioneer writer Thoppil Mohammed Meeran. Thuraimugam is the story around a harbour. It is told as if the waves are telling stories. Each of the lives that are built around the harbour are told in the language of a beating heart. A classic tale about tears behind joy and the dust below crowns.

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This novel diverts the artistic vision of seeing folk deities from the perspective of humans. Thenovel makes us realize that there is no such thing as a worthless life. Ordinary men move toanother level , through their sublime actions. The novel depicts an undiscovered land and anunheard language to reveal the goodness that is hidden in our inner selves.

Sureshkumara Indrajith is a writer wellknown for his short stories, after four decades of short stories, he has come up with his first novel 'The sea dna butterflies'. The novel portrays the life of Adhitya chidambaram, a writer, his thoughts, childhood and married life. It has excerpts of Chidambaram's novellas, and invites the reader into an exciting journey of imagining the rest of those novels. Often crossing the boundaries of fiction, Sureshkumara Indrajith has used the learnings of the short fiction form to create a complete novel.

The realm of this novel is the gamble of coincidences. The majority of events happen by coincidence; knots unravel quite easily. The characters are unorthodox and non-conservative. On one side, a mystical character sets up a story of their own. The historical puzzle of Indian psychology runs through that story. The novel offers different possibilities for the reader, in their space.

Natchathiravaasigal or the Residents of Stars is a new novel by Karthik Balasubramanian, that portrays the life of a generation working in Information Technology companies, whose lives are exoticised by those outside the bubble. Like any new change this boom has brought with itself many complexities and confusions, and the insecurity present in jobs, families, society is among the most obvious of them. The novel speaks of how men are still ancient creatures living among the modernities of today.

Acclaimed writer Yuvan Chandrasekar's eigth novel. Yuvan is well known for his non-linear, and interesting novels. His novels happen in the same arena, but the narratives build different worlds. This novel has characters who are familiar to the readers of his earlier novels, but in a new narrative, their actions are hard to guess. In familiar territory and style, Yuvan still manages to surprise readers, new and old alike.

The number of novels based on traditional Tamil sports are very few. Sevalkalam, is one such novel, based on Sevalkattu or rooster fight, a Tamil sport with long historical records. Written in a lively spoken Tamil, the novel weaves the sport and equally interesting life events together. The novel also shines in celebrating the innate goodness of its characters, which is a relief in our times.

A new novel from writer Devakanthan well-known for his books Kanavuchirai and Kanthil paavai. The novel portrays the life of a man named Kalaaban through eleven years. With chapters perfect enough to be read as individual short stories, the novel talks about migratory life on different sides of the sea, as well as over the sea. The seas play an important role in the novel seperating and uniting people. Devakanthan's mesmerising language coupled with details about ships, seasons and landscape gives us an enchanting reading experience.

This novel was an experimental work that caused a break in the form that Tamil novels were stuck with. Written by legendary Tamil writer Ashokamitran, the novel is a collection of individual narratives on the background of Emergency. From the common time period of Emergency, the narratives move past that and paint detailed images of a philosophical search, meaning of life and present us with different answers. In Ashokamitran's magic, the time period of the novel, also reflects the reader's present.

Koonan Thoppu is a novel written by Sahitya Akademi awarded writer Thoppil Muhammed Meeran. First published in 1993, the novel has impacted numerous readers over the years. Meeran writes with extreme nuance about a world he knew by experience. Standing opposite to the realm of imagination, Meeran still took Tamil literature to a novel terrain. Filled with as many thorns as flowers, he created a new school of progressive literature, that invited readers to re-examine themselves.

Anjuvannam Theru is a novel by acclaimed Tamil writer Thoppil Mohammed Meeran. It is a classic, where the author is intimate enough to the events, but still stays away at a safe distance as a storyteller. It has characters closer to real life, stuck between the orthodoxy and modernity of religious ideas. The tragedy is that they have no say over which way their life flows. They just run along with it, stabbed to death and are dragged to sky and heaven.

Thi. Janakiraman is one of the pioneers of Tamil novel. Anbe Aaramuthe can be considered as the most mainstream of his novels. Not just because it was written as a series in a magazine, but as it has dramatic turn of events. Anandasami, runs away right on his marriage day. After three decades wandering around as a monk, he returns to the same groom. Two people turned away from a marriage, reunite as parents to a daughter not born to them. Though written before half a century, the story is as contemporary as any.

Aagayathaamarai is a novel by Ashokamithran, a pioneer of Tamil literature. With Water Hyacinths as metaphors for human dreams, Ashokamitran paints a story of our reality in contrast. The novel is of the happenings that change the life of an youngster named Ragunathan. It is also a portrayal of urban middle class life in general. Through a mix of internal dilemmas and events happening, the novel talks about social-economical relationships, the hierarchy within them. Ashokamitran's magic works in its best and the reader hears an unassuming and kind storyteller's voice, when they read it.

Writer Sharmila Seyyid's second novel after her well-received debut Ummath. Panicker pethi is the story of a woman stuggling amongst men to establish herself. Sagarwan, calls herself as the granddaughter of Panicker, the mahout. She leaves her husband, who insulted her, and works hard to care for her family and gather wealth. Panicker's elephant was a living animal, and Sagarwan's elephant is invisible, with many names like hard work and hope.

Uyirthen is an idealistic novel. It strongly expresses the women situation. Anusuya and Sengamma represent the two different qualities of a woman's mind. Anusuya is frank and expressive. She is an exterior nature of women. Sengamma is made of secrets and her life is made of intense emotions and she is the interior nature of Women. However different they are, they have no difference in showing their humanity and love towards men. That love makes men be friendly with them, respect them, become crazy about them, kill them and even commit suicide.

Religious institutions are trying to destroy the indigenous knowledge gained from the lives of the coastal people and build a culture that is narrow and exploitative. The search of a boy who escapes this cultural invasion and seeks to trace his ancestral heritage, continues unabated into his old age.This is the central thread of the novel. The novel re-reads the remnants of the myths that linger in coastal life, culture and language. The novel develops itself by caring and caring about people who are exploited by religious and commercial enterprises. Joe de Cruz's serene language adds new color to coastal geography. This 'pilgrimage' traces the immortal aspects of coastal folklore in an environment where pilgrimage is understood to be intertwined with institutional spirituality.

The novel by M.V.Venkatram starts with a realistic sadness and goes onto become a text that plays out ideas like Karma, Rebirth, Transcending the birth cycle frozen in Indian spriritual minds. It's an attempt to construct a fictional replica of the spiritual search with the lives of the characters Sadhasivam, Raja, Rani, Leela and Gopu. It reminds us of the likes of thirumoolar and their spiritual discourse.

Devibharathi is one of the leading writers of Tamil today, and Natraj Maharaj is indubitably his best till day. Reality and Magic of Imagination are woven inseparably through the narrative. The novel delves into the depths of human psychology and explores the social reality outwards, a journey at the same time in both these directions is achieved by Devibharathi with an ease, similar to the way language flows through in a poetic manner through his prose. Natraj Maharaj establishes itself as a milestone for contemporary tamil literature already.

Ba.Venkatesan's works never fail to give the reader an unique experience with their narratives. 'Baaheerathi's noon', his new novel is no less, with a magical experience along the lines of the dreams one experiences in the siestas of Latin American novels. It blends history and fiction, names are not merely tags, but the chain links in history that takes us through the labyrinth of time in various directions.