Koodusaalai

Si.Su. Chellappa whose literary activities range from novel and short stories to poetry and criticism founded and edited ‘Ezuththu’ literary magazine for more than ten years. He wrote more than a hundred stories right from the ‘Manikkodi’ period in the 1930s. This book is a collection of nine best stories among them. These stories prove what a great a storyteller he was. No one has written about cattle in such a detailed manner with much accuracy in Tamil. These stories are rare proof that cattle were once considered wealth in agricultural life. His stories show the strange behaviours of human mind and its relationships to cattle. Chellappa writes with a natural tone of the village chatter. With stories about cattle and others some of which have already gathered attention this collection substantiates Si.Su. Chellapaa’s place in the history of short stories.Perumal Murugan