Kallikattu Ithikasam Exhibit Humanities

Abstract

The earth is a vast place inhabited by a variety of people. The lifestyles of the people living in each region or locality are different. People's food, worship, beliefs, professions, rituals, speeches, relationships, living conditions, etc., vary in the way of life in each locality. There is no need to visit such people to understand their way of life. Reading news about them we can understand. Thus innovation plays an important role in recording the lives of different people. Novels are generally classified as family novels, social novels, detective novels, and historical novels. Any kind of innovation can be said to be eligible for the award if it can express human thought or the eight types of human truths. One such award-winning novel is "Kallikattu Ithikasaam". The novels written by Padma Bhushan awardee Vairamuthu is the Kallikattu Ithikasaam. Vairamuthu says that the story of this novel had been brewing in his subconscious for many years. Time ordered him to carry this grief on his chest for forty-two years and place it in the coral ceremony of Ananda Vikadan; wrote; We can realize that his name is Vairamuthu from what he himself says in his preface. The word "kallikatu" refers to a village called Kallikatu, a parched forest where reeds grow profusely. So the word Ithikasaam means true story, readers of this novel will understand that this is a true story that happened in the village. The field of innovation "Kallikatu Ithikasaam" is created with the village as the center. In this, the storyteller has made good use of the speech cases, customs, proverbs and professions of the village people. Focusing on these, this article examines how the legend of Kallikatu Ithikasaam reveals the life of the people.