Reader’s guide: The 2023 International Booker Prize longlist (including Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’)

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· Mar 15, 2023 · 12:30 pm

BJP’s slum outreach campaign posters use Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s photo

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· Nov 30, 2021 · 10:29 am

Marimuthu wants to get married, but why can’t he? Perumal Murugan’s new novel is about daughters

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· Nov 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Tamil film ‘Seththumaan’, a craving for pork exposes the fault lines of caste

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· Feb 14, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Perumal Murugan: ‘How I, descended from a legacy of illiteracy, become a writer’

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· Jan 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Watch: TM Krishna, Perumal Murugan dedicate song to the protesting farmers of India

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· Dec 09, 2020 · 12:36 pm

How to translate Perumal Murugan: Nandini Krishnan on her experience with ‘Estuary’

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· Sep 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent

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· Aug 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Estuary’: Perumal Murugan calls his new novel pure fiction. But we find plenty of truths in it

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· Jul 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Estuary’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel to be set in a town and not a village

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· Jul 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Rising Heat’: Perumal Murugan’s first novel is now available to readers in an English translation

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· Jul 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In Perumal Murugan’s ‘Poonachi’, a register of goats is eerily prescient about the NRC

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· Jan 06, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘Amma’: Perumal Murugan’s new book in translation is all about his mother

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· Dec 13, 2019 · 06:30 am

Perumal Murugan’s double sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ explore what comes after a transgression

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· Jan 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

Poonachi

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· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:36 pm

One story, two endings: This is how Perumal Murugan’s dual sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ begin

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· Dec 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

Writers decry withdrawal of serial novel from Kerala magazine after author receives death threats

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· Jul 23, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Watch: This song by Perumal Murugan and TM Krishna raises its voice against the vandalism of statues

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· Mar 24, 2018 · 10:00 am

Perumal Murugan’s ‘Poonachi’ is a fable about a goat that tells a story of humans, love and freedom

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· Feb 17, 2018 · 03:30 pm

‘Poonachi’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel after he was attacked for ‘One Part Woman’

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· Feb 12, 2018 · 08:30 am