TAMIL
Short stories
P. SUNDARESAN
IMMALARGAL MIGA NALLANA: Thanu Neelamani; Vanathi Pathippagam, 23, Deenadayalu Street, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 40.
IT IS eminently appropriate that this enthralling book of 22 classic short stories has been dedicated to bright children. A profound scholar doing yeoman service in the realm of children’s education, Neelamani takes the young ones on a voyage to broaden their horizon on Subramania Bharathi, Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Victor Hugo, Wordsworth and several other men of eminence.
The stories celebrate unity in diversity, with neither language nor any other difference acting as a barrier. Music, the universal language of mankind, is also brought into play.
To indicate just a few of the subjects dealt with in this collection: Mistakes of the past are the source of wisdom; service to society is service to God; a woman’s supreme sacrifice in medical research; a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma; the liberal outlook of an ancient tribe of musical instrument-makers steeped in poverty; a railway ticket examiner seeking voluntary retirement to do research on tribalism, and a man who gives away his wealth to the poor and takes to ascetic way of life.
The volume is further enriched by the publisher’s essay on Neelamani’s role in the advancement of the students of Valluvar Gurukulam Higher Secondary School at Tambaram (Chennai).
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