The book “Hungry Humans” by Karichan Kunju has been translated from the Tamil by Sudha G. Tilak. The book was first published in 1978 as “Pasitha Manidam”.
Ganesan returns, after four decades, to the town of his childhood, he must also come to terms with his past: his exploitation at the hands of older men, his growing consciousness of desire and his own sexual identity, his steady disavowal of Brahminical morality and his slowly degenerating body. He longs for liberation-sexual, social and spiritual-but finally finds peace only in self-acceptance.
The book offers deep insight into the conservative and caste-conscious temple town of Kumbakonam, viewed here with dispassionately cold clarity as a society that utterly fails its own. Sudha G. Tilak deftly builds upon Karichan Kunju’s prose to expose this world, raw, real, without frills or artifice.
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