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Portrayal of chilling amount of atrocities society commits in the name of purity.
#Pyre by #PerumalMurugan a must read.
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Why the apologism over Perumal Murugan’s son’s wedding sets back anti-caste discourse
Writer Perumal Murugan’s son’s inter-caste wedding involving Brahminical rituals has been defended as a necessary compromise and a matter of individual choice, but such excuses only set back the anti-caste movement, writes Aazhi.
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Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s Pyre in 2023 Booker Prize longlist
One among the 13 contenders, Pyre was written originally in Tamil as Pookuzhi in 2013 and translated into English by Aniruddha Vasudevan in 2016.
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