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Who Killed Perumal Murugan

Who Killed Perumal Murugan

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A R Venkatachalapathy
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Manash Bhattacharjee
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Writer Perumal Murugan is dead,’ said an update on the author’s own Facebook page.

For a country that’s moving towards a brighter, more developed, digital future in the twenty-first century, India’s people seem to be regressing in a strange direction. From attacking writers for their work without understanding it – to a point that the writer has to claim that he is ‘dead’ – to forcing anyone who questions the ruling party’s ideas to conform, India is slowly but surely moving away from the very ideas that formed its identity: a culturally diverse democracy.

While A.R. Venkatachalapathy examines what led a venerated writer like Perumal Murugan to commit ‘suicide’ in ‘Who Killed Perumal Murugan?’, Manash Bhattacharjee, in his essay ‘The Force of Dissent’, talks about why dissent is not only important but also necessary in a democracy as big and diverse as India.

Imprint: Penguin

Published: Aug/2017

Length : 10 Pages

MRP : ₹15.00

Who Killed Perumal Murugan

(Penguin Petit)

A R Venkatachalapathy
,
Manash Bhattacharjee

Writer Perumal Murugan is dead,’ said an update on the author’s own Facebook page.

For a country that’s moving towards a brighter, more developed, digital future in the twenty-first century, India’s people seem to be regressing in a strange direction. From attacking writers for their work without understanding it – to a point that the writer has to claim that he is ‘dead’ – to forcing anyone who questions the ruling party’s ideas to conform, India is slowly but surely moving away from the very ideas that formed its identity: a culturally diverse democracy.

While A.R. Venkatachalapathy examines what led a venerated writer like Perumal Murugan to commit ‘suicide’ in ‘Who Killed Perumal Murugan?’, Manash Bhattacharjee, in his essay ‘The Force of Dissent’, talks about why dissent is not only important but also necessary in a democracy as big and diverse as India.

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A R Venkatachalapathy

A.R. VENKATACHALAPATHY is professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. An accomplished writer, he has published widely on the social, cultural and intellectual history of Tamil Nadu. His publications include In Those Days There Was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History; The Province of the Book Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu; and, as editor, Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam Poetry. Venkatachalapathy is the winner of the V.K.R.V. Rao Prize (2007).

Manash Bhattacharjee

MANASH BHATTACHARJEE is a poet, writer, translator and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and adjunct professor in te School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, New Delhi. His first collection of petry, Ghalib's Tomb and Other Poems, was published by the London Magazine (2013). He has contributed to, among others, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Huffington Post, The Hindu, The Outlook, Biblio, Economic and Political weekly and the Wire.

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