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- ‘As a writer I’m apolitical and spiritually free. That is how I’d like to retain myself’: Jeyamohan ‘I believe a writer should never take a single political or ideological stand. If a writer takes a political stand for any reason, it will corrupt his ethics.’
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Apr 23, 2023 · ‘As a writer I’m apolitical and spiritually free’: Jeyamohan The Abyss- Amazon Tamil Nadu | Writer-critic B. Jeyamohan draws on his experiences living as a beggar in his 20s in new book The Abyss ‘The Abyss’ – an English translation of Jeyamohan’s Tamil novel ‘Ezhaam Ulagam’
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Apr 23, 2023 · ‘As a writer I’m apolitical and spiritually free. That is how I’d like to retain myself’: Jeyamohan. ‘I believe a writer should never take a single political or ideological stand. If a writer...
- Priyamvada Ramkumar
Apr 11, 2023 · From Ramasamy, he learnt that a writer should be apolitical and independent, free to chart his own course. This ideal of independence is a major undertaking for a writer, one that Jeyamohan embraces wholeheartedly.
- A Pilgrimage of Sorts
- Metafiction and Facts
- Commendable Translation
This is a pilgrimage of sorts. This reviewer has been reading Jeyamohan for over two decades now, in Malayalam. In Kerala, Jeyamohan courts controversy for his stern remarks on the state of literature there, in comparison with Tamil. But in Tamil, he is revered by literary buffs, although many of his remarks on sensitive subjects such as Hindutva i...
Jeyamohan places himself in all his writing rather openly. That’s not a pleasant experience, after all. Most writers believe in the delayed release of their personalities through their writings. The less the better. But Jeyamohan has been writing about his personal life, directly in his autobiographical notes and indirectly through the ‘I’s in his ...
Priyamvada’s translation, which she calls a labour of love, is terse and succinct. This is her first work. But her command over the medium is evident right at the outset. She has managed to maintain the dialect-influenced rhythm in the original in the translation as well. She pulls this impossible feat off through an interesting strategy: she sprin...
Dec 23, 2022 · Jeyamohan (b. 1962) is a Tamil writer and literary critic based in Nagarcoil, India. One of India’s finest authors writing today, he has travelled the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent, and his work examines and reinterprets India’s rich literary and classical traditions.
By the mid-1980s he distanced himself from the organisation for spiritual and political reasons. [4] In the 2014 Indian general election, Jeyamohan extended his support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), particularly for S.P. Udayakumar, an anti-nuclear activist, who was the AAP candidate from Kanyakumari constituency.
Feb 7, 2024 · The English translation of Tamil author Jeyamohan’s new book – A Fine Thread – was launched recently. The book, a compilation of 16 stories ranging from art’s place in spirituality through the dreamy, incredible account of a young monk’s search for atonement to the examination of the social injustice inflicted upon the Dalits of India.
