A division bench of the Madras high court settling once for all the issue relating to the Tamil novel Madhorubagan, authored by Perumal Murugan and which had kicked up controversy in December 2014.
A division bench of the Madras high court settling once for all the issue relating to the Tamil novel Madhorubagan, authored by Perumal Murugan and which had kicked up controversy in December 2014. The furore had even led to a one-day bandh at Thiruchengode Taluk in Namakkal district and the author announced his death as a Tamil writer. The bench said, “Let the author be resurrected to what he is best at. Write.”
“The author, Prof. Perumal Murugan, should not be under fear. He should be able to write and advance the canvas of his writings. His writings would be a literary contribution, even if there were others who may differ with the material and style of his expression. The answer cannot be that it was his own decision to call himself dead as a writer. It was not a free decision, but as a result of a situation which was created,” said a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana.
Allowing the petitions filed by S. Tamilselvan and Perumal Murugan, the bench said there was no binding force or obligation arising from the so-called settlement arrived at with the intervention of the state authorities and a quietus be given to that issue.
