“Bro I don’t have words to say. Am just half way, now marriage preparation going on. Am really really touched 🥹” This is the text I received from my friend 2 days after I gifted him Kumarithuraivi English translation - Daughter of Kumari. I have started reading with him and finished it in a couple of days. Kumarithuraivi is a novel written by Tamil and Malayalam writer and literary critic, one of the greats, if not the greatest from my language, Jeyamohan. The book is translated to English by Suchitra. At the dawn of the 14th century during the muslim invasion in Tamil country, there was massive looting and mass destruction of temples. All the temple coffers were looted and bloodbath in all the temple cities. Scared of the army, all many great temple idols and lustrous jewels have been relocated to safeguard them. Chidambaram nataraja and Srirangam Namperumal idols were also relocated to multiple places and reached home once the Vijayanagar empire restored and renovated the templ...