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Su. Venugopal’s சொல்ல முடிந்தது opens with a man on his deathbed and ends with a request for permission to mourn that death. Between these two moments lie thirty-five years of silence – and within that silence, a slow, unexamined moral failure. Raguram is forty-nine. He has worked at the same mill for decades, married, raised…

In Chandra Thangaraj’s அறையில் புகுந்த தனிமை, the silence of a 2011 Chennai afternoon is not merely a mood; it is an active, predatory force. For the twenty-seven-year-old unnamed female protagonist, depression is portrayed not as a clinical list of symptoms, but as an urban claustrophobia so dense it renders the world in terrifying shades of…

Chandra Thangaraj’s வால்நட்சத்திரம் stays with a woman reluctantly returning to her ancestral village after her father’s death. Haunted by childhood trauma – witnessing her beloved Latha akka’s suicide – and now tormented by mysterious voices and photographs showing things she never saw, she makes a second journey to confront whatever won’t let her rest. The…