{"id":14401,"date":"2022-09-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetalentedindian.com\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2022-10-20T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:05:38","slug":"reliving-ashokamitrans-legacy-and-influence-on-tamil-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetalentedindian.com\/reliving-ashokamitrans-legacy-and-influence-on-tamil-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliving Ashokamitran\u2019s Legacy And Influence On Tamil Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ashokamitra’s work is heavily influenced and inspired by the awakening of colonial India towards independence<\/a>. The Sahitya Akademi winner depicted the subjugated section of society. Stories webbed to familiarise the often unseen and ignored realities of life. Ashokamitran’s vigour to visualise and vocalise the triviality differentiates his writing from other writers, a reflection of his own identity and position that largely influenced him to determine his spectacular course of success. A collision of the conservative and progressive chains of thought tends to create literature when consumed stirs a spiral of opinion alive and available through the medium of translation and adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He produced more than two hundred stories, nine novellas and fifteen novels. Ashokamitran’s path of writing emerged as a mechanism of writing unheard words of people, stemming from his own personal experience working in the film industry. His contribution to Tamil literature is vividly noticeable, creating the creation of 1960s onward a subtle clear expression. A nationwide view through a regional voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Journey!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jagadisa Thygarajan, before his transition into Ashokamitran, was born in Secunderabad on 22nd September 1931. He moved to Chennai in 1952 after his father\u2019s death. In 1953, he published his first novel, Anbin<\/em> Parisu( Gift of Love). <\/em>The <\/em>Gemini Studios owned by film director S.S.Vasan is a trustable foundation for his writing career, where he managed and worked for a decade in public relations instead of his interest in a screenplay. Starting from writing a set of columns for the Illustrated Weekly Of India later turned into his book, \u2018My years with boss.\u2019 He became a full-time writer in 1973,  working to navigate middle-class predicament with complex exterior social churning post independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashokamitran, writing creates a pattern of common people engaged in social political and economical contexts. A modernist experiment and including aspects that were looked over especially as a medium voicing the women. Stories inclusive and ranging, people hailing from all backgrounds some struggling with necessities, a perspective of an underbelly, the film industry and its dynamics, and his past life experiences. His famous novels Karsintha Nizhalgal(Starcrossed), and Manasarovar were based on the film industry showing casing a view distanced from glamour. Ottran(Mole) is a penned experience about his time in the United States. Thanneer(Water) dealing with the Chennai water crisis.Appavin Snehidar(My father\u2019s friend) the work that got him Sahitya Akademi Award. He passed away on 23rd March 2017, dedicated to his work. His last novel was in India in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The simplicity is evident in Ashokamitran\u2019s writing<\/a> forces you to widen the lenses to humanise a little more. The predicament and inequality prevalent decades back still continues and therefore makes his text extremely relevant to current times. As we remember him and recollect his work, the remarkable impact to change the course of Tamil literature and through translation making it widely available is remarkable.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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