His writings portrayed the intricacies of the workings of the human mind. Born into a Brahmin family in Chennai he worked as a civil servant before he took up writing. Janakiraman (Thi Jaa) is one of the major figures of Tamil literature in the 20th century and was an expert at portraying life in the Thanjavur milieu. The novel has been translated to English as The Sins of Appu’s Mother by Orient Paperbacks in 1972 and more recently as Remembering Amma translated by Malati Mathur as published by Katha in 2006. ![]() Thi Jaa’s portrayal of women who pursue their passions with calm self-assurance is bold and uncritical. Bhavani Ammal bequeaths the padasalai to Appu and Indu, with a promise to carry the tradition of Vedic teaching forward. Yet when he discovers that his idol, is having an illicit relationship with a rich landowner Sivasu under the very nose of his father and the rest of the family, he returns to the padasalai only to be drawn into a relationship with the young widow, Indu. To Appu, a Vedic scholar, his mother is as pure and beautiful as the scriptures he is studying. ![]() A moment of insight is all it takes to topple a goddess. ![]() Amma Vanthal is a lyrical story of a vedapadasalai (Vedic School) by the Kaveri and an orthodox Brahmin household in Madras.
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