The most important Tamil voice since the death of Pudumaipithan, Konangi broke free from‘authentic realism’ and re-established the Dravidian language’s link with a2,000-year-old tradition disrupted by Sanskrit and English hegemony. "I’veinherited a tradition where butterflies want to sing, elephants want to dance, alchemists,sorcerers and witches want to overwork, and the storyteller creates landscapes which haveno association to any town, city or country, and is yet not alien," says theScheherazade of our times.