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1 Two things have played a major role in the development of human culture. The first is agriculture. The second is the rise of the age of machines and factories, made possible by subterranean oil. Social anthropological thinkers say that these two inescapable developments have also left humanity permanently mired in predicaments from which there is no return. Agriculture came into practice as long as 6,000 years ago. From the day it began, according to the rules of surplus valuation…

“I go in search of myself. It is in this search that my essence lies. The path I walk in the course of my search belongs to poetry.” These are words Pramil wrote in one of his reflections. The journey along the path of the arts is a journey towards essence. That is both the nature and the purpose of art. This foundation, shared by all the traditional Indian arts, in the Tamil land, in the modern age, as the modernist outlook and aesthetic entered the art of the novel…