Vamsavriksha, Madhorubhagan and Niyoga
It has been 50 years since S.L.Bhyrappa’s ‘Vamsavriksha’ was published, The Hindu reminisced and a friend posted the write up on Facebook. She commented that while she recalled the time it was published and also controversy surrounding the book ‘Madhorubhagan’ by Perumal Murugan surprised the former didn’t meet the same amount of opposition. For both deal with Niyoga was her point. I had not read ‘Vamsavriksha’, and sadly got to know of an author called Bhyrappa only 10-years ago on a chance picking up an old and dusty copy of ‘Parva’ at the Sahitya Akademi exhibition in Mumbai. I was so taken by ‘Parva’ I went online to know more about the author and his books. Since then I have followed him and was so shaken when I read his ‘Avarana’ in Tamil translation couple of years ago. But, I vaguely remembered ‘Vamsavriksha’ from the Telugu movie, and couldn’t relate it to ‘Madhorubhagan’. My friend ofcourse stood her ground supporting it is all in perception. I have no objectio...