Rajam Krishnan's novel Kootu Kunjugal

Abstract

Rajam Krishnan's novels mostly deal with family, society, poverty and  economics, caste related issues and about child labour. Novelist Rajam Krishnan would plan the theme foor a novel in advance and travel to the relevant places and stay there to find out the life of the people and writes the novel based on his experience This is his specialty. In the novel Kootu Kunjugal he talks about child labour. He has created a story centering on tribulations. The novel depicts the condition of people who send their children to the matchbox and firecracker factory to fill their stomachs when agriculture is stopped in a dry land because of lack of water and rain. Golam who went to work in a factory at an early age, got sick and Viji, the boss's wife who protests, fo all this things and leaves her husband. In this novel, Rajam Krishnan has said whether in present or past till the poverty did not get vanished child labour also will not come to an end.