#Udayar novel part 6 free download series#
Series about the Great Emperor Raja Raja Cholan, includes the details about how he built Thanjavur district Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur and many more. Udaiyar, a six-part novel, gave me satisfaction as a writer." Novels written But I felt I did that work, visiting those places as a tourist. I did a lot of research for my novel Gangaikonda Chozhan also. Whoever did it, has worked on it with real faces. If you look at the paintings there, each face is unique. She was an anukkiyar, a category that is apart from the queens and concubines. I went to the Thanjavur district and visited Pallipadai, dedicated to Panchavan Madevi. The Thanjai temple wasn't even in the picture. "The Raja Raja Chola of Kalki was a different person. In an interview given to The Times of India, he said that after reading Kalki Krishnamurthy's novel Ponniyin Selvan he wondered why it was needed to write a fictional account of the Cholas when there was enough to write about the facts there. Also, he traveled in trucks to longer distance for his 'Irumbu Kuthirai' (Iron horse) novel. For instance, In 'Udayar' novel, he had traveled many places where Raja Raja Cholan visited in order to bring closeness towards the novel. Balakumaran had the habit of experiencing characters by himself when writing a book. This prompted him to develop a liking for them. In an interview, he said that during his initial days in Chennai he spent his life amidst such people. This "legitimisation" of female existence earned him succeeding generations of devoted women readers who resonated with the female characters in his fiction. In his stories, women were not merely gendered cardboard cutouts but fully sentient individuals, with bodies, dreams, desires, yearnings and frustrations. Literary style and themes īalakumaran's works majorly revolved around woman with great empathy. Balakumaran's first novel - 'Mercury Pookaal' was serialized in Saavi and his second 'Irumbu Kuthirai' (Iron horse) was serialized in Kalki. His first stories were published in a literary magazine called 'ka-ca-da-ta-pa-Ra' and for which he was also a founding member of KaChaTaThaPaRa, a self-anointed militant literary journal that had been launched with a mission to blaze new trails in modernist literature and later in Kumudam. But, with hunger for literature, he quit the job of stenographer in a tractor company and started work on poems first and gradually moved towards short stories & novels. After completing his studies at Wesley High School, he joined a tractor company TAFE in Chennai for a job like any middle class youth.
Despite having a poor relationship with his father due to average academic performance especially Maths, he continued his deep interest in literature with his mother's support. This created a deep interest in Tamil literature which made literature his passion.
As a child, he was highly inspired by his mother, who was a Tamil scholar and a Siromani in Sanskrit, used verses of Sangam and other ancient literature to motivate him whenever he was emotionally down. Balakumaran died at the age of 71 due to prolonged illness in a private hospital on. He was a disciple of Yogi Ramsurat Kumar. They have daughter Gowri and son Venkataraman aka Surya. Balakumaran was born in Pazhamarneri village near Thirukattupalli in Thanjavur district on 5 July 1946.
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