DharmaKuthanur

  • “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese

    A Review “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese is a sprawling multi-generational story about a family of St.Thomas Christians (Christian converts whose lineage goes back all the way to the arrival of St.Thomas on India’s shores in AD 50) in south Kerala. The story spans the period from 1900 to 1977 seamlessly moving across… Read more

  • Thoughts on Perumal Murugan

    Attempts to ban a book always backfire and end up making the writer and their works more popular. That’s certainly the case with Perumal Murugan, the brilliant Tamil writer whose books have only recently been translated into English, published in the West and as a result expanded his readership well beyond his devoted Tamil readership… Read more