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The tragedy of the rebel lovers
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My suggestion (of course, it was
highly speculative) in my earlier column that, perhaps, the ‘kootru’ in the
ancient grammatical work Tolkappiyam
could have later become ‘koothu’ indicating
‘theatre’ has stirred up a hornet’s nest. I was hauled up by one traditional
Tamil scholar, who argued that Tolkappiyam
had only reflected the way of real
life of the Tamils in the past and that ‘the treasure-house of the ancient
Tamil culture, which is what Tolkappiyam
is’ could not have described a
fictional life on the stage.