LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Rhythm of the Rattling Rootless with Reference to Neela Padmanabhan's Generations

Preetha. C., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Scholar)

Neela Padmanabhan’s Novel

The paper discusses Neela Padmanabhan's Generations. Neela Padmanabhan is a distinguished Tamil novelist. The discussion here is based on the translation of the original in Tamil, Thalaimuraigal. The translator Ka.Naa.Subramaniam is a celebrated writer of Tamil novels, short stories and literary criticism. The theme of the novel is to make one's way independent of the tradition and yet the impact and influence of tradition will always be there. Changed circumstances may dislodge tradition and may set us free as a wind might loosen a seed stuck in a dry spot.

The Central Character

Diravi is the central character in this novel. He was shocked (and individually awakened from within) when his older sister Nagu Akka who was married six months back to Sevantha Perumal was sent back home calling her unfit for marital life. He felt that it was Nagu Akka's singular misfortune that all this had happened to her. Some made fatalistic remarks such as "She was fated to live like that, what we can do? The sins of the past life'". (64) When Nagu Akka lay on her stomach, most of the time weeping either in the dark inner room or in the passage, Diravi's anger turned towards his brother-in-law who has not considered his sister’s feelings. Nagu Akka is an example of some women in our society, who suppress their emotions within themselves, to maintain their family bonds.

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Preetha. C. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Scholar)
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Sarada College for Women (Autonomous)
Afliated to Periyar University
Salem - 636 016
Tamilnadu
India
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