Selllaatha Panam: Multiple Dimensions and Understandings of Life

Abstract

It was with the rise of Dalit literature that people, events, culture and language, which had not been given importance until now, were recorded. These Dalit literary personalities also recorded the people and culture that they forgot to record. Although he is a Dalit man, in his fiction he has recorded Dalit women, children, puzzle painters, drummers along with their artistic and living environment in his novels and short stories. Tamilnadu Dalit legends, especially novels, are mostly his history, his family history, and a work that explains his status, while Imayam has objectively recorded the lives of personalities who are not important in Dalit legends. When he looks away like this, it becomes more observation than emotion. He has written a novel about the tragic feelings of a non-Dalit family. This novel published in 2018 won the Sahitya Academy Award for 2020. Revathi, who has completed her engineering studies and has a good work order in hand, is adamant that she will not marry anyone other than Ravi, a Burmese refugee who is inferior to her in terms of education, economics, family honor and caste. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the multiple dimensions and understandings of this novel.