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Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri, 1985) is outwardly a great political satire where the author knows no restraint in lampooning political establishments. The language, the setting, and the characters are intended to create as great as possible Read More..

by O. V. Vijayan

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Description	Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri, 1985) is outwardly a great political satire where the author knows no restraint in lampooning political establishments. The language, the setting, and the characters are intended to create as great as possible abhorrence towards the tools and means of governance. The central character is Sidhartha, modelled after the illustrious predecessor of the same name, who lends a supernatural enlightenment to those who are attracted by his enchanting personality. Beyond the apparent level of political meaning the novel keeps in store spiritual and environmental levels of meaning also. The novel was to be serialised in Malayalanadu from July 1975, it was advertised too but the Emergency declared on 25 June that year intervened. Neither the writer nor the editor was eager to be a martyr. The novel appeared only in 1977, after the lifting of the Emergency. What was originally a dark prophecy now appeared to be a report of what had happened. This novel also met with disapprobation from the allies of the state in different garbs no publisher would dare touch it as the memories of the dark days of the Emergency were still fresh and they were afraid too of the possible public disapproval of its sexual-scatological language and imagery. It found a publisher only in 1985 when the tempers and fears had cooled a little. Its English translation, done by Vijayan himself and published by Penguin Books in 1987, created a storm anew on a national scale. David Selbourne, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, referred to it as "dangerous stuff and cut close to the bone", while Khushwant Singh remarked: "Not the kind of novel you forget in a hurry." Vijayan himself described it as a cleansing act that he had no desire to repeat.
Description	Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri, 1985) is outwardly a great political satire where the author knows no restraint in lampooning political establishments. The language, the setting, and the characters are intended to create as great as possible abhorrence towards the tools and means of governance. The central character is Sidhartha, modelled after the illustrious predecessor of the same name, who lends a supernatural enlightenment to those who are attracted by his enchanting personality. Beyond the apparent level of political meaning the novel keeps in store spiritual and environmental levels of meaning also. The novel was to be serialised in Malayalanadu from July 1975, it was advertised too but the Emergency declared on 25 June that year intervened. Neither the writer nor the editor was eager to be a martyr. The novel appeared only in 1977, after the lifting of the Emergency. What was originally a dark prophecy now appeared to be a report of what had happened. This novel also met with disapprobation from the allies of the state in different garbs no publisher would dare touch it as the memories of the dark days of the Emergency were still fresh and they were afraid too of the possible public disapproval of its sexual-scatological language and imagery. It found a publisher only in 1985 when the tempers and fears had cooled a little. Its English translation, done by Vijayan himself and published by Penguin Books in 1987, created a storm anew on a national scale. David Selbourne, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, referred to it as "dangerous stuff and cut close to the bone", while Khushwant Singh remarked: "Not the kind of novel you forget in a hurry." Vijayan himself described it as a cleansing act that he had no desire to repeat.

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