By: Gayatri Vasudevan CHENNAI: Inspired by the Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi which triggered a civil disobedience movement across the country, a group of 100 men led by marched to and extracted salt from sea water in April1930 to break the the salt law imposed by the British. But history texts make only passing mention about a salt march that took place in., a Tamil author, has set about making a new generation aware of this historic event, with research she has used in a novel, ‘Uppu Kanakku’. On her inspiration to write the novel during the launch of its English translation ‘A Fistful of Salt’, at a book shop in Adyar, Vidya Subramaniam said the discipline and the dedication with which they carried out the entire event persuaded her to write the story.
Vidya Subramaniam (Tamil: வித்யா சுப்ரமணியம்) is a Tamil novelist and short story writer. She generally writes about middle-class urban women; her characters are more independent and self-reliant then many in Tamil popular fiction, and her stories often have a glimmer of feminism[1].
“I developed the idea for the novel while watching a documentary on theDandiMarch, and wantedto revivethediminished history of the participation of the south,” she added. The novel combines fictional characters with real characters and presents history with an interesting plot. The story details a character named Ananth who, on a short vacation at his great grandfather’shousein Mylapore, finds out about his family’s participation in the freedom struggle.
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