Where Are You Going, You Monkeys? Folktales from Tamil Nadu – Rajanarayanan, Ki. (Paperback)

$15.00

The celebrated folklorist Ki. Rajanarayanan (1923-2021) spent over 80 years collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black-soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu.

This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel-crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of “naughty & dirty” folktales!

Includes 8 illustrations by Trotsky Marudu.

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"The stories are great fun to read, told in suitably simple, colloquial English – a hugely refreshing change for bhasha fiction in English." –Renuka Narayanan, Hindustan Times

"At a time when it's becoming fashionable to define 'Indian culture' as a fixed entity and in the most conservative terms, and to squeeze tradition into an airtight box, these stories are important reading." –Jai Arjun Singh, Ultrabrown

"This delightful collection fully lives up to–enhances–Blaft's young but confident standing." –Vijay Nambisan, Deccan Herald