Tag: Ocean Rimmed World

By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Ocean Rimmed World; Author R.N. Joe D'Cruz; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 563; Price: 575 Universally, the travails of fishermen at sea are unending. Written originally in Tamil, and translated into English by G. Geetha, R.N. Joe D'Cruz's novel "Ocean Rimmed World" explores the hardship, toil, labour of coarse love and change-induced conflict in the lives of the fisherfolk community in his native Tuticorin, in southeast Tamil Nadu, which is in the news of late after protests against corporate giant Sterlite Copper turned violent. Set in the community...