Renowned Tamil writer, Perumal Murugan, who declared himself "dead" eight years ago following protests over his 2013 novel, has returned to make it to the list of the International Booker Prize.

Say what you will about goats, but they rarely take offense. For Indian writer Perumal Murugan, that’s a welcome change. Five years ago, Murugan endured such violent protests against one of his books ...

Earlier this year, at a literary festival in Jaipur, I met the Tamil writer Perumal Murugan. I had just finished reading his book “Poonachi,” which will be published in the U.S. this month as “The ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – It is an unusual interaction. You ask the questions, and two kind people, who know Tamil, translate them for him. He answers in his native tongue, and his replies come back in ...

It has been just over nine years since I first met Perumal Murugan, in January 2014. It so happened he was in town for the Chennai Book Fair, where his then-latest novel Pookkuzhi – which would be ...

I picked up Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s Fire Bird (translated into English by Janani Kannan) when it was nominated for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023, an award the book has gone on to win. It ...

Coming from a family that boasts numerous elopements spanning generations, perhaps I am uniquely suited to talk about Perumal Murugan's Pyre. I have seen, first-hand, the shake-ups of loyalty, the ...

A confession. I am Perumal Murugan’s friend, collaborator and admirer. You cannot expect detached objectivity from me. But I hope that, through this column, you will get to see another side of this ...

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Perumal Murugan, a leading Indian author who writes in Tamil, declared his writing "dead" in 2015 after he was harassed and attacked by right-wing groups. But he has broken his self-imposed silence in ...