Book Review

Book review 1

Reading and reflecting on texts

Type: Novel

Author: Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu

Publisher: Thirumagal nilaiyam

Pages 399

Published year: 2012

Price: Rs.300

Introduction: (About text)

War opens a door to a new civilization. Whenever there is war, it leads revolution of mankind into next level. A well civilized and alerted one.  Today’s hyper technology Japan was created after the second world war atomic bomb blasting, “The Little boy” and “The Batman”.  The first two world wars were fought among humans; they have used deadly weapons that took hundreds and thousands of human lives. But Poet Vairamuthu’s “Third world war” – Do the human started the war against nature? or the nature started the war against humans? Whatever it is the result will not be a favour for humans, the victory still remains for earth. It explicit, how farmers are struggling for farming. It is a good book for knowing the various facts about the global warming and how human race is destroying thee nature.  It is an Ilakkiya sindhanai award-winning novel. Three years of extensive research has gone into the making of ‘Moondraam ulaga por’ and 10 months to write it.The effort has been worthwhile.

About the author:

Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu is the Sahitya Academy award winning novelist and poet, who is famous for his lyrics for the tamil movoes. He is one of the versatile writters in Tamil literature today. He is the only lyricist who has won the national award for lyrics six times. He also won numerous accolades for his works, including National Film Awards, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. Razor-sharp metaphors and stinging similes mark his writings on social maladies. ‘Moondram ulaga por’ – Third world war’ is his third novel after ‘Kallikkatu ithikasam’ and ‘Karuvachi kaaviyam’ exemplifies it further. His creations are not only with pen and paper, it gives the spirit of living. All the chracters in his creations are not only simply characters but also the living life.

Summary:

It is a story about a former. The importance of former and farming is expressed in this novel. This book deals about a war, which is going on now.  This war is wages with hidden weapons, a war between the sky and the earth. War waged on the people and the nature. This world has not seen a war of this kind. This is the war waged by global warming and globalization against agriculture. This story is surrounded with a small farmer Karuthamayie and his two sons. The character Karuthammayie resembles our mother, those who read the book wants to be one of her son. Chinnpaandi a characterized farmer, Emili, the Atlanta beauty, Ishimuraas unforgettable friendship,  the villain Muthu mani all these characters still lives in our mind. This novel is about the present and future.

Literary significance and criticism:

”The nation that destroys it soil, destroys itself” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

“Anubavikkiradhu mattum thaan kaase, adhukku mele padhukki vaikuradhellam verum number thaan”

“Agriculture warrants the same amount of importance that’s being given to the education sector”

The neglection of agriculture must be overcome. When we complete this novel we will experience the life together with the farmer karuthamma. It creates great respect over formers and leaves many questions about our future.

 This book does not stop with highlighting problems but it gives solutios too.

            “Give them electricity and water. Then they will need neither the gods nor the governments to save them”.    

The part which I like most:

“How this man can always think fresh and see the usual things in a different way?”

Whenever I read a Vairamuthu’s book, I will get impressed by the language Tamil. Today we can kill the earth, can create infertility, the body of mother of earth can be wounded by dangerous weapons, we can make it more and more warm, but the third world war between the human race and the earth may result ciaos in human life. The victory is devoted for earth not for humans.

According to me a true warrior is one who does not talented to swing his sword, but who stabilizes the world with his pull of plough on the field.

So it is our duty to make the earth’s atmosphere cool and comfortable.This is one of the best book for dealing with the environment issues. I would like to suggest this book a must read.