The novel also denotes the detachment of growing generation towards our culture.
The novel draws an incident that Reghu's daughter asked him "what sort of a tree it is by pointing at the paddy fields. In a way the novel can also be considered as a blend between the old and the new. Later as any other man who wish to stand up in the social ladder,he too decided to sell his ancestral home for building a city mansion.
The pivotal point of the novel started at the time of his return
to his village after a decade, where the characters like Ammulu, Laksmi(sisters) Viswanathan Iyyer and Ganapati Pattar existed as his own reflections of his past. The story ran around the recall of his past. The sequence of incidence made him to drop the proposal to dispose his ancestral property
The novel fills the reader's mind with nostalgia and take them to their own roots.. The world wide recognition of this literary piece may be because of it's wonderful scrutiny of human minds…
KIRAN P C
SKILL DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
GVHSS MANANTHAVADY
DECEMBER 2017
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