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Kaval Kottam, authored by the award winning Tamil author S. Venkatesan, is a historical novel that fetched him the renowned Sahitya Akademi Award and the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada.
S. Venkatesan is one of the most esteemed Tamil writers of our times. He received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for the historical novel Kaval Kottam, which also won the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada for him. Venkatesan is currently the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association. He is also known as an excellent orator, apart from being a writer. He lives with his wife Kamala and the two daughters Yazhini and Tamizhini.
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\r \tKaval Kottam, authored by the award winning Tamil author S. Venkatesan, is a historical novel that fetched him the renowned Sahitya Akademi Award and the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada.
\r \tS. Venkatesan is one of the most esteemed Tamil writers of our times. He received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for the historical novel Kaval Kottam, which also won the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada for him. Venkatesan is currently the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association. He is also known as an excellent orator, apart from being a writer. He lives with his wife Kamala and the two daughters Yazhini and Tamizhini.
Often history is made by people who think differently; but sometimes, history chooses people for greatness. Latter is clearly the case with Su. Venkatesan, one of the recipients of Sahitya Akademi Award for 2011. This is the first time in the history of the Sahitya Akademi that the prestigious award is being conferred in recognition of a debut novel.
The next dominant factor of the novel is the Mullai Periyar Dam. In his novel, Venkatesan presents the societal and economic background in which the Mullai Periyar dam was built. It portrays the suffering of people of the then unified district of Madurai and deaths that took place during the construction of the dam.
The novel also elaborates on the local policing system that prevailed in the city especially during Nayak regime before it was wiped out by the British to bring in the modern day judiciary system. It also vividly describes how the British officials crushed the security guards and lodged them in camps after declaring them as notified community under the Criminal Tribes Act.
He was conferred the Sahitya Academy Award for his Tamil novel Kaval Kottam. His recent book Vel Pari was widely well-received among the public. He is well known in the literary field and is popular among general public. His debutant novel Kavalkottam published in 2008 was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 2011. The film Aravaan is based on it.[1] His second novel Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari was serialised in Tamil popular magazine Ananda Vikatan.[2] He is the general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association.[3]
The second part explains the downfall of Nayak rule after Thirumalai Nayak, another famous Nayak, who awarded the rights of guarding Madurai and suburbs to a tribe called Piramalai Kallars, living in Thadhanur, a fictitious village created in the imaginations of the author. Though the name of the village was fictitious, the incidents that are explained by the author from the raise to fall of the tribe are supported by documentary evidences collected by the author painstakingly for a period of about ten years. The records collected are evidenced at suitable places in the novel as letters shot from one officer to the other of the East India Company administratos and during the British Rule. The excesses committed by the Kallars in collecting the Kaval coolie (Fee for guarding), and in case somebody refuses to pay it, how they venged them fearfully by committing murders and resorting to robbery. The author has opined that the tribe is not the people of Tamilnadu, but the descendants of the ruthless Kalabhras, who ruled Tamilnadu during 2-3 centuries BC, a period which is still described as the black age in the history of Tamilnadu.
The actions taken by the British Raj to curtail the activities of the Kallars is explained at the last chapters and in this attempt all the persons belonging to that community were either killed or were removed to the reformation camps. The novel ends with the destruction or disappearance of the community from the scenario.
The historical events and the story-telling style of the author makes it easier for a reader to complete the book containing about 1050 pages of smaller fonts in a shorter period. It took hardly ten days for me to complete the entire book. It is satisfying that S.Venkatesan has now brought a voluminous novel Chandrahasam, and I am yet to lay hands on it. I hope to have this shortly.
In April 2010, following the success of Angaadi Theru, Vasanthabalan started working on his new project based on Su. Venkatesan's novel Kaaval Kottam, a novel depicting the history of Madurai during 1310-1910, which was released in 2009. Aravaan's story would be based on one chapter from the novel, running to about 10 pages, with Vasanthabalan claiming that he expanded it and took one year for penning the scriptment,[7] further telling that he had tried to "mix action and emotion".[8] The director said that he included more characters and incidents into the script, disclosing that the film's lead character Varipuli was not there in the short story and that he created him and gave a name.[7]
Well, it took me a decade to complete Kaval Kottam. The novel demanded extensive research in various fields, including anthropology and folklore. My research in these fields for this novel was denser than that which has been conducted in academia. It naturally required that kind of time.
After Kaval Kottam, it took me another seven years to begin writing Velpari. This might appear like a long interval... I was on a quest for another novel, which again required field research. However, I ended up with Velpari. This is what essentially makes creativity so immensely fascinating. Even if I had walked with my eyes wide open, I would not have probably reached this right a place. Velpari was a perfect destination for my aimless quest.
The success of Velpari comes at a time when we thought historical serials have become passé.
Reading is an act of catharsis, an act of reawakening. Of what use it is to tell the same old stories in the same old language? A writer should aspire to play in a new field employing new tools. In a sense, a novel is the art of arranging facts. Sangam literature is the only string of our memories that span over ten thousand years. When you write a novel set against the backdrop of the Sangam period, it is entirely possible to create a structure based only on facts. That is what I have attempted, and I think it has helped break the monotony of serials. It has ushered in a new wave.
Did Velpari demand as much work and research as your historical novel about Madurai, Kaaval Kottam, did?
Every work demands its own unique research. For Kaval Kottam, I did my research in government archives maintained because it fundamentally dealt with the colonial period. Velpari is based purely on Sangam literature. If for Kaaval Kottam I followed human beings who lived on the plains and constantly migrated from one place to another, for Velpari I travelled into the lives of tribals on the western hills.
Velpari is the original form of conflict between nature and human greed that Tamil society keeps witnessing over and over again in various periods. The novel will remind every reader of the politics of this exploitation. I believe it is the primary duty of any literature to do so. It takes only a moment for a literary work to juxtapose an ethic it holds high with the contemporaneity of a subject.
Vasanthabalan's new film Aravaan is a period film based on the novel Kaaval Kottam by this year's Sahitya Akademi winner, Su Venkatesan.The novel depicts 300 years of Madurai's history.
This Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel narrates the story of a group of people who are now in the autumn of their lives living in an old age home. Abandoned and neglected by their loved ones, they gradually learn to accept this place as their home (from indiaclub.com).
A revolutionary novel, it was based on the Kilvenmani massacre that took place in Thanjavur district in 1968. The novel won its author the Sahitya Akademi Award. It was also adapted into a film titled Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum.
Just like Ponniyin Selvan, Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari penned by Lok Sabha MP S. Venkatesan is a literary novel about a real life Tamil King and has previously been serialized in a popular Tamil magazine. The book mononymously known as Velpari is currently being adapted to made into a movie, but there seems to be confusion over who exactly is involved in the film adaption.
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S. Venkatesan is one of the most esteemed Tamil writers of our times. He received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for the historical novel Kaval Kottam, which also won the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada for him. Venkatesan is currently the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association. He is also known as an excellent orator, apart from being a writer. He lives with his wife Kamala and the two daughters Yazhini and Tamizhini.
kaval kottam tamil novel pdf free download
Download Zip https://1protincarszo.blogspot.com/?xmay=2wY15J
\r \tKaval Kottam, authored by the award winning Tamil author S. Venkatesan, is a historical novel that fetched him the renowned Sahitya Akademi Award and the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada.
\r \tS. Venkatesan is one of the most esteemed Tamil writers of our times. He received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for the historical novel Kaval Kottam, which also won the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada for him. Venkatesan is currently the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association. He is also known as an excellent orator, apart from being a writer. He lives with his wife Kamala and the two daughters Yazhini and Tamizhini.
Often history is made by people who think differently; but sometimes, history chooses people for greatness. Latter is clearly the case with Su. Venkatesan, one of the recipients of Sahitya Akademi Award for 2011. This is the first time in the history of the Sahitya Akademi that the prestigious award is being conferred in recognition of a debut novel.
The next dominant factor of the novel is the Mullai Periyar Dam. In his novel, Venkatesan presents the societal and economic background in which the Mullai Periyar dam was built. It portrays the suffering of people of the then unified district of Madurai and deaths that took place during the construction of the dam.
The novel also elaborates on the local policing system that prevailed in the city especially during Nayak regime before it was wiped out by the British to bring in the modern day judiciary system. It also vividly describes how the British officials crushed the security guards and lodged them in camps after declaring them as notified community under the Criminal Tribes Act.
He was conferred the Sahitya Academy Award for his Tamil novel Kaval Kottam. His recent book Vel Pari was widely well-received among the public. He is well known in the literary field and is popular among general public. His debutant novel Kavalkottam published in 2008 was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 2011. The film Aravaan is based on it.[1] His second novel Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari was serialised in Tamil popular magazine Ananda Vikatan.[2] He is the general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association.[3]
The second part explains the downfall of Nayak rule after Thirumalai Nayak, another famous Nayak, who awarded the rights of guarding Madurai and suburbs to a tribe called Piramalai Kallars, living in Thadhanur, a fictitious village created in the imaginations of the author. Though the name of the village was fictitious, the incidents that are explained by the author from the raise to fall of the tribe are supported by documentary evidences collected by the author painstakingly for a period of about ten years. The records collected are evidenced at suitable places in the novel as letters shot from one officer to the other of the East India Company administratos and during the British Rule. The excesses committed by the Kallars in collecting the Kaval coolie (Fee for guarding), and in case somebody refuses to pay it, how they venged them fearfully by committing murders and resorting to robbery. The author has opined that the tribe is not the people of Tamilnadu, but the descendants of the ruthless Kalabhras, who ruled Tamilnadu during 2-3 centuries BC, a period which is still described as the black age in the history of Tamilnadu.
The actions taken by the British Raj to curtail the activities of the Kallars is explained at the last chapters and in this attempt all the persons belonging to that community were either killed or were removed to the reformation camps. The novel ends with the destruction or disappearance of the community from the scenario.
The historical events and the story-telling style of the author makes it easier for a reader to complete the book containing about 1050 pages of smaller fonts in a shorter period. It took hardly ten days for me to complete the entire book. It is satisfying that S.Venkatesan has now brought a voluminous novel Chandrahasam, and I am yet to lay hands on it. I hope to have this shortly.
In April 2010, following the success of Angaadi Theru, Vasanthabalan started working on his new project based on Su. Venkatesan's novel Kaaval Kottam, a novel depicting the history of Madurai during 1310-1910, which was released in 2009. Aravaan's story would be based on one chapter from the novel, running to about 10 pages, with Vasanthabalan claiming that he expanded it and took one year for penning the scriptment,[7] further telling that he had tried to "mix action and emotion".[8] The director said that he included more characters and incidents into the script, disclosing that the film's lead character Varipuli was not there in the short story and that he created him and gave a name.[7]
Well, it took me a decade to complete Kaval Kottam. The novel demanded extensive research in various fields, including anthropology and folklore. My research in these fields for this novel was denser than that which has been conducted in academia. It naturally required that kind of time.
After Kaval Kottam, it took me another seven years to begin writing Velpari. This might appear like a long interval... I was on a quest for another novel, which again required field research. However, I ended up with Velpari. This is what essentially makes creativity so immensely fascinating. Even if I had walked with my eyes wide open, I would not have probably reached this right a place. Velpari was a perfect destination for my aimless quest.
The success of Velpari comes at a time when we thought historical serials have become passé.
Reading is an act of catharsis, an act of reawakening. Of what use it is to tell the same old stories in the same old language? A writer should aspire to play in a new field employing new tools. In a sense, a novel is the art of arranging facts. Sangam literature is the only string of our memories that span over ten thousand years. When you write a novel set against the backdrop of the Sangam period, it is entirely possible to create a structure based only on facts. That is what I have attempted, and I think it has helped break the monotony of serials. It has ushered in a new wave.
Did Velpari demand as much work and research as your historical novel about Madurai, Kaaval Kottam, did?
Every work demands its own unique research. For Kaval Kottam, I did my research in government archives maintained because it fundamentally dealt with the colonial period. Velpari is based purely on Sangam literature. If for Kaaval Kottam I followed human beings who lived on the plains and constantly migrated from one place to another, for Velpari I travelled into the lives of tribals on the western hills.
Velpari is the original form of conflict between nature and human greed that Tamil society keeps witnessing over and over again in various periods. The novel will remind every reader of the politics of this exploitation. I believe it is the primary duty of any literature to do so. It takes only a moment for a literary work to juxtapose an ethic it holds high with the contemporaneity of a subject.
Vasanthabalan's new film Aravaan is a period film based on the novel Kaaval Kottam by this year's Sahitya Akademi winner, Su Venkatesan.The novel depicts 300 years of Madurai's history.
This Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel narrates the story of a group of people who are now in the autumn of their lives living in an old age home. Abandoned and neglected by their loved ones, they gradually learn to accept this place as their home (from indiaclub.com).
A revolutionary novel, it was based on the Kilvenmani massacre that took place in Thanjavur district in 1968. The novel won its author the Sahitya Akademi Award. It was also adapted into a film titled Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum.
Just like Ponniyin Selvan, Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari penned by Lok Sabha MP S. Venkatesan is a literary novel about a real life Tamil King and has previously been serialized in a popular Tamil magazine. The book mononymously known as Velpari is currently being adapted to made into a movie, but there seems to be confusion over who exactly is involved in the film adaption.
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