பொன்னியின் செல்வன், முழுத்தொகுப்பு by Kalki

The story is based in the 11th century Tamil empire of the legendary Cholas (Chozhas), with the great Raja Raja Chola being one of the characters. This historic novel serialised for a period of three and a half years. It narrates the story of Arulmozhivarman (later crowned as Rajaraja Chola I), one of the kings of the Chola Dynasty during the 10th and 11th centuries. Ponniyin Selvan is a Tamil historical fiction novel written by Kalki based on real events. 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.

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. The success that Krishnamurthy attained in the realm of historical fiction is phenomenal. Ki’, ‘Tamil Theni’, ‘Karnatakam’ and so on. He wrote under the pen names of ‘Kalki’, ‘Ra. Krishnamurthy’s witty, incisive comments on politics, literature, music and other forms of art were looked forward to with unceasing interest by readers. 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. His name also represents “Kalki avatar”, the tenth and last avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. 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). Tamil language Novel Writer, Journalist, Poet & Critic late Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy also known as ‘Kalki’.

பொன்னியின் செல்வன், முழுத்தொகுப்பு by Kalki