Community Issues in the Novel ‘Neerthuli’ (Water Droplet)

Abstract

Neerthuli (2011) is one of the novels written by the creator Subramanian. The book won the 2012 Jayakanthan Creative Literary Award as the Best Novel. The purpose of this article is to explore the social issues documented in this book. Living in a modern living environment, Subramaniam takes a keen interest in the life revolves around himself and shapes it through his natural language. The world he sees is the one with full of changes. Therefore, his works are also innovative. It is a characteristic that is humbly expressed in the purpose of symbolizing the inevitable pulling event of the disintegration of the family structure that has been defined and preserved over time. Expressing the new way of life problem of "living together" with the most precise mindsets and movements with artistic elegance reveals a different nature of the writing of the creator Subramanian. The ‘Neerthuli’ novel accurately reveals the difficulties of living together with an unmarried young man and a distressed woman who is forced into a new environment after a divorce. The novel's fundamental problem is the life problems of two immigrants who are trying to find a new way of life. Set against the backdrop of a new environment, it embodies the lives of migrated human beings with its dynamic properties. This novel confronts the predicament faced in a woman's life in which she is tortured by her husband, mentally and physically without approving the divorce. Moreover, the novel did not fail to point out the atrocities suffered by the workers. He has recorded the dominance of employers in the workplace, labor exploitation and oppression. He has recorded ecology as one of the problems that is to be looked at in today's environment. He also talked about ecological issues that include water pollution, land pollution, air pollution, and pollution caused by the use of plastics.