Charu Nivedita
இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: சாரு நிவேதிதா
Charu Nivedita (18 December 1953) is a Tamil writer. Charu Nivedita is one among the foremost writers of post modernic, post structuralist aesthetics and the forerunner of transgressive writing in Tamil. Charu Nivedita is popular for his writing styles such as encyclopedism combining multidisciplinary messages, metafictional tendency about writing, playfulness about everything, transcending the bounderies of morality and political correctness and rebellious against the system.
Birth, Education
Charu Nivedita's given name was Arivazhagan and he chose a pseudonym as he was a government servant. Being a supporter of the left wing revolutionary movements of that period, he carved out his pseudonym from Charu Majumdar, the founder and architect of the Naxalite movement. Charu Nivedita was born on 18 December 1953 to G. Krishnasamy and Parvathi at Idumbavanam near Thiruvarur. He completed his school education at Nagur, Pre University Course at Karaikkal and Bachelors degree in Physics at Thanjavur. Charu Nivedita joined the Government service even before completing the course. A. Marx was his physics teacher at Thanjavur.
Personal Life
Charu Nivedita got married to T. G. Sugantha @ Avanthika in the year 1992. He completed the typewriting and short hand courses and joined the Government service as a mid level employee. Charu Nivedita was an assistant at the office of the Inspector of Prisons in Chennai. He was employed in the Public Distribution Department in Delhi. Charu Nivedita then returned to Chennai and worked as an assistant at Postmaster's office and took voluntary retirement in the year 2001.
Literary Life
Literary life of Charu Nivedita can be divided into three eras.
First Era
From the beginning, Charu Nivedita had an aversion towards the modern literature revolving around the little magazines. He was close to left wing ideologies and was of the opinion that the modern writings written amongst a small group is useless. Charu Nivedita critized that the modern literature of Tamil is nothing but a modernist literature and is concerned only about the individual needs and does not take into account the social trends and political dynamics. According to him, these individual needs too belonged to the marginalised elites who were excluded by the political trends of the Tamil soceity, often imagined falsely and exaggeratedly within a small circle. To point this out, Charu Nivedita coined the sarcastic phrase Thayir Sadha Nunnunarvu ( curd rice perception) which became popular later.
Charu Nivedita's first published work was Kanavugal Sidhaithal under the pseudonym Nivedita in the populist Tamil magazine Saavi. Between 1978 and 1990, Charu Nivedita's works were published in the left wing magazines like Ilakkiya Velivattam and Padigal. After he returned to Chennai in the year 1990, Charu Nivedita was writing simple fictions in the populist magazines like Dinamalar Varamalar. At the same time, he was putting forward antipathy and strong criticism on modern Tamil literature. When Sundara Ramaswamy's novel JJ Sila Kurippugal was published in the year 1992, Charu Nivedita critized it strongly and published a bulletin in his own expense. In this bulletin, Charu Nivedita accused JJ Sila Kurippugal of putting forth the individualism and sectarianism of modernity that is close to facism, mocked and belittled all forms of revolutionary politics including Marxism.
During his stay in Delhi, Charu Nivedita was associated with the street theaters of Delhi. He published a short book on revolutionary politics proposed by Sartre. Through the articles written in various magazines, he was putting forward the staunch left wing political outlook.
Second Era
Charu Nivedita got transfered to Chennai from Delhi where he got friends like Ramesh Predhan, Prem and Nagarjunan. With them, he developed interest in post modern and post structuralist ideas. Charu Nivedita was associated with the Nirapirigai magazine that was published from Pondicherry. Nirapirigai was the magazine that attempted to combine the left wing and Periyarist ideas with the post modern perspective. Charu Nivedita says, "There were two categories in the little magazine milieu, viz., Sanathana logic and post modernism and I belonged to the second".
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