Rajam Krishnan

Koottu Kunjugal Rajam Krishnan

Koottuk Kunjgal (Broodlings) vividly describes the squalor and poverty that beset the lives of laborers working in Sivakasi's match factories. hyperbolic representations of love. The protagonist Viji in Koottu Kunjugal is wary of the hyperbolic representations of love as existing in seven births. Rajam Krishnan is unable to come to terms with what she perceives to be the unchanging plight of women in society, irrespective of whether they are traditional or modern. She once remarked in an interview "It is a shame that the sufferings women underwent in my days dog them even now." Rajam Krishnan'sworks express her anguish at the way inequities are perpetuated in one form after another. Her novels and short stories have been translated into various Indian languages and English. I do not fully subscribe to the view that works of fiction are all products of imagination. I, at least, internalize real life "visions," let them play on my heartstrings and bring them out as literary compositions... I keep going in search of new arenas new experiences. - Rajam Krishnan