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Jayakanthan

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place in modern Tamil literature

In South Asian arts: Tamil
…urban Tamil middle-class family life; Jayakanthan, a sharp and passionate writer, with a tendency to shock his readers; and L.S. Ramatirthan, probably the finest stylist at work in Tamil today, who started by writing in English.
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