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The Tamarind Tree
Sundara Ramaswamy's modern classic, translated from Tamil, is a simply stunning reflection about shared histories, loss, an affinity for nature, and a near-mythic center of life in a village in India. While it lived, the tamarind tree stood at the crossroads of a small village in Southern India. For more than fifty years it was a benevolent observer, offering shade without discrimination. It bore witness to laughter and tears, to tragedy and simple pleasures, and to the history of the village itself as it transformed from the old ways of bullock-led carts to a bustling community of social, political, economic, and ecological change. And for Damodara Asan, an enigmatic philosopher, memory keeper, and master storyteller, the tamarind tree--and everything it inspired--was an endless source of tales that enthralled generations. Unfolding through the bittersweet remembrances of an unnamed narrator who was once beguiled by Asan, The Tamarind Tree is a beautiful and universal story about transition, the compromises of progress, and a long-gone though undying symbol of indestructible dignity, culture, and life.
J.J., Some Jottings
Structured As A Biography Of A Fictional Malayalam Writer-It Is At One Level A Critique Of The World Of Tamil Letters And On Another, A Novel Of Ideas Engaged With The Burning Questions Of To Bring And Existece. Represents The Best Of Tamil Writing Even To-Day, More Than 20 Years After Its First Apperance.
Our Teacher
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Tale of a Tamarind Tree
This Novel, One Of The Finest To Come Out Of Contemporary India, Tells The Memorable Tale Of The Tamarind Tree, Of The Lives Of Men And Women Who Sought Its Shelter And Of Their Greed, Goodness, Selfishness, Sacrifice, Love And Hatred.
Waves
A superb collection of stories from a modern Indian master! One of the most versatile and innovative among contemporary Tamil writers, Sundara Ramaswamy’s early stories, written between 1951 and 1966, focus on ordinary people leading ordinary lives and are full of gems by way of characterization: the policeman and the priest of the Nadi Krishna temple in ‘Prasadam’, and Varadan and Joswyn in ‘True Love’ remain unforgettable, in spite of their pedestrian lives. Written in the 1970s, clouded by the aftermath of the Bangladesh war and the Emergency, in the later stories—‘Intoxication’, ‘Waves’—the plots turn darker and more complex. Surprising us with their twists and turns, raising uncomfortable questions, and yet touched by a fine sense of humour and humanity, the stories in this collection belong with the best in the genre.
Imli Puran
A tamarind tree stands tall at the crossroads of a remote town in Southern Tamil Nadu as a mute spectator of changing times; of greed and goodness, of love and hatred. The tree provides shelter to one and all without discriminating, and witnesses the huge gaps that exist between communities and people. The tamarind tree is neither the protagonist nor the narrator. It is only a witness to social, political and economic changes that take place around it. Many stories unfold around it until it falls victim to man's greed one day and is reduced to a bare stump.
That's it But
For the first time in English a selection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry showcasing the breadth and depth of one of the most versatile and innovative Tamil writers is available. Known for technical brilliance, Ramaswamy s writing is underscored by compassion, humour and disquieting endings.
Scavenger's Son
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