![]() Known for its high dramatic content, SliAPPADIKAARAM is a shining jewel in Tamil literature. The epic is 8 rich record of a great civilisation, vivid with descriptions of edifices shrines, docks, market- places, squares, of laws and rituals, of""Natya Shastra~ (Science of Dance), musicology and musical instruments of the day. Her story is set in the three ancient cities 01 South India_POOMPUHAR the Chola capital where she grew up MADURAI the Pandya capital where she fell and VANJI the Chera capital which placed her on a pedestal. to the art of a dancer, MADHAVI, and finds him again only to lose him to the blind law of a king. An ill-fated housewife, KANNAGI loses her husband, KOVAlAN. KANNAGI, a gem of a housewife, a 'paragon of chastity', has been immortalized in the pages of SliAPPADIKAARAM, the famous Tamil epic of lIango, the Che'a prince-turned-ascetic _ It is the story of a clash between thrftt) anklets: the anklet of the home, the anklet of the stage, and the anklet of the palace. ![]()
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