The world of Jeyamohan’s short fiction travels from the British Raj to the contemporary times and presents itself as a series of conversations. The conversations are works of art most of the time. At times, the talks fall flat and point to a lacunae in the selection of stories for this collection. As a storyteller, Jeyamohan has been disruptive in the Tamil literary landscape for the last three decades. It is through the voices of the ordinary people and a unique rhetoric that he captures the public imagination. The author’s ability for relentless dialogue is now part of Tamil folklore. His spectrum of work in Tamil fiction is vast and his grasp of the beauty of the Tamil language is deep and unique.
The lyrical quality of his prose allows miracles to evolve through a buildup of everyday words. It is through such a constant construction that Jeyamohan goes back to an imagined past and finds solace. It is the sickness of modernity—of cosmetic surgeries, steroids, and ideas of democracy—that takes him back to the ‘glorious’ past of magic and miracles. Some critics find his ideas anti-progress and anti-women. A careful reading of this collection of short stories by Jeyamohan will help any reader discover that he is a complex creator. His commitment to the world of storytelling is sincere, deep rooted, and non-negotiable.