When the Kurinji Blooms

✍ Scribed by Rajam Krishnan; Rājam Kiruṣṇan̲

• Publisher: Orient Blackswan
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 8125016198
• ASIN: B00B4D10FG

✦ Synopsis

Translated from the Tamil Kurinjithen, Rajam Krishnan’s lyrical and erudite novel is a family saga of three generations of Badagas in the Nilgiris. As the winds of social change and modernity invade their protected lives, the innocence and harmony is replaced by conflict and tragedy that precede a new beginning.

Rajam Krishnan (1925) a prolific writer, she wrote her first novel Swatantra Jothi in 1948. Publishing almost continuously since then, her work spans a variety of literary genres: fiction, essays, biographies, short stories and a travelogue. Her writing is bold but lyrical and her feminist perspective and socialist ideology are tempered by her deep humanism. She has won several literary awards for her writings and her work has been extensively translated into other Indian languages. She lives in Chennai.