![]() He symbolizes the hope that there are other Ramaiyas alive today in other villages, striving to rise, to lead and to mobilize against the forces of karma and kismet. ![]() Regardless of the ideological tint Ramaiya remains the symbolic rallying link between a confused mass of helpless people and an action oriented group of individuals reaching out to grasp basic human rights and freedoms. The character almost central to the action in the novel is Ramaiya, alleged by the drama's villain Naidu, also a high caste Hindu, to be a communist. There is Gopal, Shiva's friend, involved in the unconscious process of relating with the village downtrodden, conscious at the same time of his own high caste birth. There is Shiva, the man of the city going to the village to meet an old friend. ![]() His best known plays are Aurangzeb, Pasi, Mazhai, Nandan Kathai and Raamaanujar. The novel's protagonists are well-matched. Widely acknowledged as one of those who have revolutionized modern Tamil drama, Indira Parthasarathy is a creative writer, literary and cultural critic, and historian who started his career as an academic. ![]() The River Of Blood revolves around the interaction of forces between the haves and have-nots of rural India and of the confrontation of values when products of urban prodigality return to become agents of village messiahism. Indira Parthasarathy has chosen to write a novel based on the Tanjavur tragedy. Indira Parthasarathy is the nom de plume of Professor R. ![]()
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