![]() ![]() She said she was looking at the female anatomy as a living entity, not as a commodity. Her novel Muligal (Breasts) drew criticism from male Tamil writers, who said she had sexed up her writing. ![]() Another voice is Kutti Revathi, a poet and lyricist who has won several national awards. Bama, the nom de plume of Faustina Mary Fatima Rani, whose maiden novel, Karukku (Palmyra Leaves), a Dalit feminist work, won her several awards in 2000, has a considerable following. Over the past decade powerful female voices have emerged in the Tamil literary world. These protestors include women from a range of communities – Dalit, Muslim and working-class – whose works have provided unique insights into Tamil society and alternative worldviews from the subaltern trenches of the 21st century. "If only they read my works they would understand my feminist principles," he wrote, initially sounding conciliatory, only to later describe the signatories as a "gaggle of foul-mouthed female protesters". Taken aback by the backlash, Jeyamohan issued an apparent apology on his website the following day. The protest was spearheaded by veteran Tamil writer Ambai, who founded the Mumbai-based organisation SPARROW (Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women), which documents the work of female writers and artistes. " feminist culture many are afraid of speaking the truth that may be anti-women for fear of earning their ire." His comments did indeed evoke ire, but from women and men alike, with about a hundred writers and activists signing a statement published online on June 18, protesting against what they said was "blatant misogyny". "The male writer has to prove his literary merit to join such lists the female writer gains prominence simply by being a woman," he wrote. He was evidently reacting to a list of significant contemporary Tamil writers, compiled by author Naanjil Naadan and published in the Tamil weekly magazine Ananda Vikatan, in which 11 of the 27 novelists and poets named were women. Jeyamohan wrote on his popular website on June 9 that many female Tamil novelists and poets lacked literary merit but had gained prominence and won awards because “they had employed many publicity gimmicks and had attracted media attention and popularity”. Jeyamohan has worked in Department of Telecommunications at different places of Tamil Nadu.Tamil writer B Jeyamohan's disparaging remarks about his women colleagues, posted on his website earlier this month, exposes a strain of misogyny in the literary world of this ancient language, one that springs from a fear of strong female voices. Jeyamohan married Arunmozhi Nangai in the year 1991 and the couple has 2 children. Jeyamohan wrote his first full-fledged novel Rubber in 1988 which revealed the ecological and sociological impact of rubber cultivation in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Bodhi and Padugai were his next published ones and he was praised by critics for Padugai. ![]() Same year, Nadhi was published in Kanaiyazhi. In 1987, the journal Kollippaavai published his poem Kaidhi. His correspondence with senior Tamil writer Sundara Ramasami started during this period and he maintained the relationship till his death. After a series of incidents, he took up a temporary job at the Telephones department in Kasargode. During his commerce studies at Pioneer Kumarasamy College in Nagercoil, he became a victim of depression following his dearest friend’s death. Due to his father’s transfers, they stayed at different parts of Tamil Nadu as well as south Kerala. He was influenced a lot by his mother for his literary works and considers her as goddess Saraswathi. Jeyamohan was born on 22 April 1962 to S.Baguleyan Pillai and B.Visalakshi Amma in Arumanai, Nagercoil. He started his literal career in the early 1990’s. He is deeply influenced by the works of great humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manithan, Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai are other noted works. Vishnupuram is his best known and critically acclaimed work. He is also known as a literary critic from Nagercoil of Kanya Kumari, the southern district of Tamil Nadu. Jeyamohan, also pronounced as Jayamohan is a noted writer of Tamil and Malayalam languages.
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