மாந்தருக்குள் ஒரு தெய்வம்

by Kalki Krishnamurthy

1948-இல் அமரர் கல்கி எழுதிய மகாத்மா காந்தியின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாற்றுத் தொடர். மணியம் ஓவியங்களுடன்.

859 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

Tamil language Novel Writer, Journalist, Poet & Critic late Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy also known as ‘Kalki’. He derived his pen name from the suffixes of his wife name Kalyani and his name Krishnamurthy in Tamil form கல்யாணி and கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி as Kalki (கல்கி). His name also represents “Kalki avatar”, the tenth and last avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu.

His writings includes over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews. Krishnamurthy’s witty, incisive comments on politics, literature, music and other forms of art were looked forward to with unceasing interest by readers. He wrote under the pen names of ‘Kalki’, ‘Ra. Ki’, ‘Tamil Theni’, ‘Karnatakam’ and so on.

The success that Krishnamurthy attained in the realm of historical fiction is phenomenal. Sixty years ago, at a time when the literacy level was low and when the English-educated Tamils looked down on writings in Tamil, Kalki’s circulation touched 71,000 copies – the largest for any weekly in the county then – when it serialised his historical novels. Kalki had also the genius to classify the historical and non-historical events, historical and non-historical characters and how much the novel owes to history.

Reviews

[Saravanan Meivel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really a great collection to be kept and read many times...

[Srinivasan Balakumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book by Kalki Krishnamoorthy describes the start of struggle for freedom by Mahatma Gandhi on his return to India from South Africa in 1918. It explains how the resistance of then notorious Congress leaders like Bal Gangadhar Thilak and others to some of Gandhi's movements like qilafat movement, non co operation movement have failed due to blind mass support to Gandhi. This book ends with incidents of 1921. I do not know if there is 2nd volume..