Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction Large numbers of followers and

Large numbers of followers and devotees have continued to throng Sufi shrines seeking blessings and benediction

he was just as much a man of science and engineering

The women in these stories continued to grow

Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy

Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death

Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction Large numbers of followers andThe celebrated folklorist Ki. Rajanarayanan (1923 2021) spent over 80 years collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu. This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of "naughty & dirty" folktales!