This slim volume is a collection of Neela Padmanabhan's writings. The range of his writings is wide. The themes he covers are immensely diverse. He casts the net wide and captures the essence of wisdom gleaned by him during the last fifty years of literary experience. He had suffered privations quietly, held his head high even when friends turned to enemies when they could not stand his success both in his profession and also with the pen. Some of them cast ...
Neela Padmanabhan is well known as a leading short story writer and novelist in Tamil. Very few people, however, know him as a poet. A select band of people know show he uses poetry to present the pains that the vast majority of the populace endures, to reflect his own anguish at society’s imbalances, injustices and iniquities. He laments the fragile structure of modern society, racked by the politics of power that pervades even the field of literature. He ...