A Novel That Roiled India Is Now Translated Into English (Published 2018)
In 2015, the Tamil writer Perumal Murugan committed literary suicide. “Perumal Murugan the writer is dead,” he posted on his Facebook page. “Leave him alone.” He instructed his publishers to stop selling his work and readers to burn his books. For months, he had been hounded by right-wing Hindu …
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