VOlUME 04 ISSUE 08 August 2021
Dr. G. J. Hamlin
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Introduction
Thooppukaari is a Tamil novel by Malarvathi the young woman writer who bagged the Sahitya Akademi’s Yuva Puraskar Award in 2013. Mary Flora, whose pen name is Malarvathi, is a young budding writer, who hails from Vellicode of Kanniyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. It is the simple and plain style of the language used with the mishmash of the colloquial dialect of Vilanvancode taluk of Kanniyakumari district, Tamil Nadu that won her the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar National Award. The tactics that Malarvathi employs through the dialectal words is a sincere revelation of her feelings. The novel helps the reader to comprehend the exploitation, the discrimination, the trauma, the forced labour, the unimpressive appearance and the neglected hunger of the sweeper community in line with the varied layers of the story.