Perumal Murugan is a Tamil author and scholar who has written several novels, short story collections, and poems. Three of his novels have been translated to English, including Seasons of the Palm. He was a professor of Tamil literature. His novel Pyre depicts an inter-caste love story between Kumaresan and Saroja and the problems that their marriage creates in their caste-conscious society, culminating in a tragic honor killing orchestrated by the village. The novel examines the dual oppression faced by women from marginalized castes in Indian society.

4.  Perumal Murugan is an author, scholar and literary chronicler
who writes novels in Tamil.
Six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of
poetry to his credit.
 Three of his novels have been translated into English: Seasons of the
Palm, which was short listed for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005,Current
Show and One part Women.
 He was a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in
Namakkal

5.  Seasons of the Palm or Koolamadari
 Current Show or Nizhal Mutra
 One part Women or Madhorubhagan
 Rising Heart or Eru Veyyil
 Pyre or Pookkuzhi
 The Misanthropic Bird or Aalandap Patchi
 Nizhal Mutrattu Ninaivugal, a memoir
 Manavosai,Tamil journal
 A Tree that Stands in the Crematorium or Mayanathil Nitkum
Maram, an anthology

7.  love story -Saroja and Kumaresan -different castes
 depicts the fear of impurity
 lower caste hesitates to accept a lady from another
caste
 It depicts the problems of inter-caste marriage
 Doubly marginalised

8.  problems of inter caste marriage, insecurity prevails in the
society in every castes
 First chapter -Dalit literature
 Second chapter -inter-caste marriage- problems on Saroja and
Kumareasan
 Third -women characters- the doubly marginalized victims
 Final chapter -Perumal Murugan -the theme of caste conflicts -
Pyre

9.  It focuses on Dalit literature and major Dalit writers and their
works
 Objectives of Dalit literature
 Conditions of Dalit life
 Dual oppression of Dalit women
 Tamil Dalit literature and Perumal Murugan

10.  problems of inter-caste marriage
 forbids marriage outside the caste
 Pyre -Kumaresan falls in love and elopes to marry his
beautiful neighbor
 Perumal Murugan never mentioned the castes
explicitly.

11.  The protagonist of the novel-mutual love ghost of inter-
cast marriage- social acceptance
 As a mother-in -law, Marayi
 Caste conscious society –decides to kill Saroja

12.  dual oppression of women
 question the place and role of women in Indian society
 reveal the pathetic condition -women who married a
man out of her caste
 the lovable husband’s efforts- protect his wife- caste
conscious society

13.  a city woman Saroja -village woman Marayi
 Saroja -confidence to Kumaresan -struggling to raise
money
 Saroja and Marayi -stereotypical women characters.
 Marayi -typical motherhood -sacrifice life to children.
 As a widow- struggle- upbringing- Kumaresan

14.  Pyre pictures -collapsed dreams and aspirations
 The caste conscious mad society -the power of their mad
beliefs
 Pyre shows -not just the men but also women themselves
make life miserable for other women
 Saroja -inter caste marriages –Marayi -widowhood
 Honour killing.