Kalachuvadu - பிப்ரவரி 2019

Diaspora writing is a novel addition to contemporary fiction. This issue of Kalachuvadu flashes on this. There a four short stories by four writers who dwell in the various nooks of the globe.
Pathinathan from India, A S Kandaraja from Australia , Elango DJ from Canada and Rashmi from United kingdom portray the life of Tamils in the lands of refuge. Sahitya Akademy winner for this year S Ramakrishnan contributes a story for this number. Poems are by Pa Ahilan from Sri Lanka. A study by Gunasekar on the classic text "KOKKOKAM which speaks the love lust and eroticism of Tamils is the highlighter of this issue. Perumal murugan reviews A R Venkatachalapathi's book on Tamil Encyclopedia , and Riyaz on Ba Venkatesan's new novel Varanasi. Stalin Rjangam revisits the memories of Budhism in Tamil milieu. Eminent film maker Mrinal Sen remembered for his outstanding contributions to the art of cinema by S Anand and P K Sreenivasan speaks about R K Alwar who run a pavement bookshop in Chennai in a poignant piece.