Puyalile Oru Thoni

P.Singharam's fiction about Pandyan, the hero of the novel 'Puyalile Oru Thoni', is a huge boulder thrown on the battered Tamil life. A subversive of common sense and values, Pandyan is essentially an adventurer, a revolutionary, a rebel. Nothing matters to Pandyan, who stirs with excitement about the great experiences of the globe. Interest in adventure, constant drinking, association with many women, indifference to death, displacement, and adventure are characteristics of Pandyan. P.Singharam's achievement through his new language is unique, reaching a peak that no other novelist in Tamil has touched so far. Puyalile Oru Thoni is a novel that drifts here and there endlessly in the narrative according to the title. Like a symphony, various plot points appear, grow, disappear and reappear through the course of the novel.