MANIMEKALAI ON THE MOVE ( a play by Latha Ramakrishnan) ANAAMIKAA ALPHABETS AMAZON KINDLE BOOK & PAPERBACK EDITION

MANIMEKALAI ON THE MOVE ( a play by Latha Ramakrishnan)

ANAAMIKAA ALPHABETS 

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A FEW WORDS TO SHARE REGARDING THIS PLAY OF MINE…

_Latha Ramakrishnan

I happened to see the play MANIMEKALAI bywriter Veli Rangarajan whose plays have earned a place for themselves in contemporary Tamil Literature.

*Manimekalai is a legendary epic and its female protagonist whose ‘Atchayapaathra’(the classic bowl) which satiated the hunger of countless persons being ever full has come to symbolically represent many things in life.

In the final scene of the play the actress who played the character Manimekalai got down from the dais and walked amidst the audience acting as if she was offering some of them food from an imaginary bowl. And, when I received a handful  from her in a willing suspension of disbelief state of mind the seed for this  play must have got planted in the depth of my  heart.

 Originally written in English this play of mine was published in Muse India Internet Magazine and even won acclaim and a prize money of Rs.500 several years ago. Subsequently I translated this play into Tamil and it got published in a Tamil Literary Monthly Pudhupunal in its October 2009 issue.  At this juncture I convey my thanks to both these magazines for publishing this play of mine.