Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Hello all,

Nice to be a part of this group. To introduce myself, iam Arun, a s/w Engg in Bangalore.
I remember when i was twelve when my aunt started narrating me the story of ponniyin selvan and from then i have been addicted to it like anything. I have read it umpteen number of times as any other meember in the group would have and my fav character in the noevl is Nandhini.
Ponniyin selvan is something i may never forget in my life because iam wondering if it would be my next career path. yes. I have been dreaming of writing a historic fiction for sometime now and have been postponing the idea because i thought i did not have the much needed experience. Finally one day this year, i decided to make a start and push things forward and see how it works out. The result was that i was able to come up with a framework for a historic fiction . I did not want to postpone things and so started writing it. I wondered it would be better to make it online and recieve comments as i wrote it. So i had to restirct myself to writing it in english. (though i would love to do it in tamil)

The novel is named "ilavarasiyin megam" (The Cloud of the Princess) and it has just started and 11 chapters have been written. It is available online at

http://tcotp.blogspot.com


Since this group loves historic novels, i thought it would be the right place to look for critics/comments. Hope my amateurish attempt amuses you.

I have also started a community in orkut for the novel and it is slowly growing in size. You can also join it at
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=22505821


Looking forward to your comments/critics. It can nowhere be near PS, but still a noble attempt :)

Thanks folks

Arun.