However, he does have his biases and favorites. One could easily call him an equal opportunity offender. It takes a certain gumption and stringent ideas of literary value to call Kalki a historian for children. Jeyamohan pulls no punches when it comes to criticisms. But then expecting S.Ra to know that is foolhardiness. A kitchen can only give questions but the answers lie outside the kitchen. In a country where Romila Thapar still lives girls are told that sitting and wondering about spices in a kitchen is the way to become a historian. Would S.Ra advise a male audience to step into a kitchen as the first step to becoming a historian? And that is exactly where the problem lies in India. Addressing an exclusive audience of girls S.Ramakrishnan suggested that the first step to becoming a historian is as simple as standing in a kitchen and wondering about the many spices that abound in an Indian kitchen. The word charlatan was invented to describe the likes of S.Ramakrishnan. It is time to measure some of the male authors with the Jeyamohan standard. The difference was that Shobha De wrote in English and Revathy wrote in Tamil. Shobha De wrote sheer pornography and yet she is feted as a socialite whereas Kutty Revathi writing an anthology of poems titled 'Breasts' invites scorn and ridicule including snide remarks about her physique. If England can establish a prize to encourage women writers I see no reason as to why Jeyamohan, with his considerable influence, not think of ways to change what he calls a lamentable mediocrity. Many readers concurred with Jeyamohan on his observation regarding women writing but little dialogue happened about how to encourage women or a nuanced discussion of why it is so. The liberty with which men pursue their intellectual interests is not available to the Tamil women whether it is Jeyamohan's home or mine or anybody else's. Coming home she has to take of cooking and other chores. Now she is pressured with too much work at office. She even wrote her impressions of a novel by Su.Ra. Jeyamohan, writing to P.A.Krishnan in an exchange of emails, said of his wife "she has written literary criticisms. The issue of accommodation apart, it is not easy for even motivated women readers to attend such a meeting. Jeyamohan has worked in Department of Telecommunications at different places of Tamil Nadu.Jeyamohan conducts a literary retreat every year for his readers. Jeyamohan married Arunmozhi Nangai in the year 1991 and the couple has 2 children. Jeyamohan wrote his first full-fledged novel Rubber in 1988 which revealed the ecological and sociological impact of rubber cultivation in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Bodhi and Padugai were his next published ones and he was praised by critics for Padugai. Same year, Nadhi was published in Kanaiyazhi. In 1987, the journal Kollippaavai published his poem Kaidhi. His correspondence with senior Tamil writer Sundara Ramasami started during this period and he maintained the relationship till his death. After a series of incidents, he took up a temporary job at the Telephones department in Kasargode. During his commerce studies at Pioneer Kumarasamy College in Nagercoil, he became a victim of depression following his dearest friend’s death. Due to his father’s transfers, they stayed at different parts of Tamil Nadu as well as south Kerala. He was influenced a lot by his mother for his literary works and considers her as goddess Saraswathi. Jeyamohan was born on 22 April 1962 to S.Baguleyan Pillai and B.Visalakshi Amma in Arumanai, Nagercoil. He started his literal career in the early 1990’s. He is deeply influenced by the works of great humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manithan, Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai are other noted works. Vishnupuram is his best known and critically acclaimed work. He is also known as a literary critic from Nagercoil of Kanya Kumari, the southern district of Tamil Nadu. Jeyamohan, also pronounced as Jayamohan is a noted writer of Tamil and Malayalam languages.
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