TAMIL
Crime fiction
P. SUNDARESAN
THARA…THARA…THARA: Pushpa Thangadurai; Vikatan Prasuram, 757, Anna Salai, Chennai-600002. Rs.65.
THIS SUPERB crime fiction first serialised in Ananda Vikatan in 1982 can be reckoned as one of the forerunners of Joseph Finder’s celebrated thriller Paranoia. This tightly-plotted thriller involving both violent crime and industrial espionage depicts the rot in the Indian milieu. It takes a fair amount of concentration to follow the novel’s labyrinthine plot. What Prabhakar, a close associate of the protagonist Pallavi told her soon after his Assam assignment in an intelligence agency was a ringing endorsement of his leadership: “Spying and sabotage are increasingly becoming the order of the day. Enemies are out to cripple the nation by indulging in terrorist activities. It is time people woke up to realities and arrested the trend.”
The turn of events would show how violence is a cancer in our society.
The novelist has distinguished himself as a spinner of rattling good yarns in the delineation of the two sisters from an ancestry of freedom fighters who hailed from a distant village and who had undergone life’s trials. There was a pal of gloom when Pallavi was forced to be in deathbed when suddenly Prabhakar descended on the scene with all the traits of an intelligence officer. The spymaster Nag’s team got frightened when the woman who acted as his wife turned an approver. Pallavi’s last word was that she had done her duty to the nation.
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