Kallikaattu Ithihaasam

Vairamuthu · 2001 CE · Novel · Indian · Contemporary

Farming families of the dry Tamil south see their villages submerged when the Vaigai dam is built in the 1950s. The book follows how people of different castes and fortunes are uprooted and what the state offers in exchange. By a poet best known as a film lyricist, it won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil and is counted among his strongest prose.

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