The novel The Coloured Curtain is a translation of the Tamil Novel Chayathirai which is quite a significant novel in modern Tamil literature. The author portrays the reality of life in Tirupur pleasantly convered with a coloured curtain. He excels in the depiction of sorrow page after page by throwing light on illusion and reality, life and death, beauty and rubbish by tearing open the coloured curtain. It is remarkable that a uniform tone of depiction is ...
