Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction Islanded returns us to the

Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy

he was just as much a man of science and engineering

Determined not to settle for her fate

imbuing their lives with meaning

it features breathtaking photography of the leopards in their wilderness plains/montane forest habitat

Where are You Going, You Monkeys? Folk Tales from Tamil Nadu by Ki. Rajanarayanan Historical Fiction Islanded returns us to theThe celebrated folklorist Ki. Rajanarayanan (1923 2021) spent over 80 years collecting the weirdest and wildest tales of the karisal mannu, the black soil region around Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu. This book contains a gallery of jealous husbands and conniving goddesses, pious sparrows and randy mice, jewel crazy girl ghosts and angry star demons, as well as a chapter of "naughty & dirty" folktales!