Murugan had heart-breakingly declared on Facebook - "Author Perumal Murugan is dead", signaling his resolve never to write or publish again, a line invoked many times during the "intolerance" debate that raged through much of last year. Write" had been the concluding words of the July 6 verdict of the Madras High Court striking down the persecution of Perumal Murugan. Murugan, it may be recalled, had then declared heart-breakingly on Facebook - "Author Perumal Murugan is dead", signaling his resolve never to write or publish again, a line invoked many times during the "intolerance" debate that raged through much of last year. He was mulling the reissue of his earlier writings, Murugan revealed, after an extensive process of reviewing them. His writing, Murugan said at the launch, would not be the same after his bitter experience, and neither did he know whether he would ever again write a novel – the genre that he's best known for.

Source: dna August 23, 2016 02:48 UTC