As the days of social isolation stretch ahead of us, we asked 12 leading writers about their lockdown reading Game of hide-and-seek Perumal Murugan For the first two days after the announcement of the lockdown, I was steeped in anxiety.
Apprehension about what might happen to humankind engulfed me and set my mind adrift, not allowing me to do anything. But I couldn’t stay that way, after all.
So, to help pass this time of crisis, I picked four books and kept them on my table. It’s with them that I spend my days. These are: Kuruntokai—a work of classical Tamil literature in which vibrant language, intense emotion and the wisdom of experience are inherent, and not even one of its 400 poems is below par.