Does it imitate the life of art or is the other inspired by life? It may be other chicken and egg puzzles, but when Twain meets, coincidences forces us to sit.
It’s been a week since the terrible Karur Stampede caused 41 people in the TVK political rally in the district. Since then, several events have developed, and none of them have been moved by the visual elements of the Night 27. September – Men and women running to the hospital carrying the inanimate bodies of children and ambulances bring people out of help to the hospital, or the crowd swaying like one amoeboid, just waiting to happen.
If you should look at the literature of what develops in the Tamil novel Vazhga from the Sahitya Academy Award Imayam (translated into English Prabha Sidevan), it is the work of fiction, but frighteningly similar to what happened in Velusamypuram. The amendment is full of thin veiled references to political leaders Tamil Nadu before 2016; The story itself is about a crowd that gather at the election assembly of female policy. There are many divergence from what has also happened in Karura, of course, but the story provides an eager insight into the functioning of the traditional political machine in Tamil Nadu.
In Vazhga, Veshga is the perumal organizer of the political party, his work involves mobilizing people at the assembly of his party. He is neither a protagonist nor a villain in the story, just by gearing in the machine. It brings women from villages to the assembly, pays each of them 500 ₹ and gives them a polyester party, lunch and several water packages. It is not really important what happens to the assembly is why we are discussing this story.
Women who go with the Venkatesa Perumal do so unwillingly because they know that the money they pay is useful. The similarities to Karur begin when the delivery of women is taken to the venue, it is only able to move the thumb behind the thumb, because the crowd has gathered in the morning. Neighbors who came with the Venkatesa Perumal – Gomati and Andnda – dealt with a crowd and a decorated stage. When they wait for the assembly to start, some women say they can’t wait to see the leader.
However, this respect soon retreats discomfort, misfortune and death. As a writer Mr. Imayam founded his unique skill in Fathoming The Female Psychie. Humor in the text is slowly raced like Agni Nakshatiram Sun rises in the sky, is unbearably hot, the crowds have increased extremely, there are not enough chairs, women have no bathrooms that do not have to use, they cannot get out of their closure and the water is insufficient. He feels weak, some collapse. They were waiting for hours, but there is no sign of the leader yet, because the crowds in the karur remained.
Crisis and death
But the greater crisis is launched by men. The leader finally arrives at the helicopter and the scene is displayed on the crowd on the LED screens. But as if that was not enough, some men climbed to the barricades of Casuarin, which separated men and women.
When more men climbed, the poles were died and retreated and the men fell and crushed them. Mr. Imayam writes that the limbs of many people were broken, the woman was stabbed by the sharp end of the party’s flag, and as people tried to run, there were death, people fell, and others climbed over them and eagerly got out of there. But the police defeated them back, the story goes.
Onoument drips with irony. He writes that the leader continued to solve the cadre, searched for voices, and ignored what was happening in the middle of the crowd. She continued reading from paper in her hands, not knowing completely, ending.
Published – 05 October 2025 01:08 IS
