![]() They can include the science-fiction thrillers-more fiction than science-of Kumar, the romances of Ramani Chandran, the detective knockabouts of Pattukottai Prabhakar and Suba, the religious tales of Indira Soundara Rajan and the social dramas of Pushpa Thangadorai. ![]() The flavours of this genre are uniformly sensational but otherwise eclectic. In 1987, a novel cost Rs2 it now costs around Rs25, still a price that can call out to browsers at the corner teashop, retirees, homemakers, train passengers and other devoted readers. The classic Tamil pulp novel runs between 100 pages and 150 pages and is printed on cheap paper as a monthly magazine. In the present age, as original novels begin to dry up and authors direct their talents to the lucrative field of screenplay writing for television and cinema, Kumar is also at the head of a pack of writers that stays faithful to its lurid craft. Kumar is, one of his fellow authors says, “the superstar of the Tamil pulp fiction industry". ![]() The short story that he submitted reluctantly the next day was the first of more than 2,000 he would go on to write, in addition to more than 1,500 novels.
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