which was later translated into English. An orator par excellence (mostly on Ex tempore) but rarely attends any public literary meetings. Have acted in plays. Known plays include Japthi. Can Paint. Was in earlier days a painter. Never Married. Comments on works include Criticism on the overtly Baroque style. A stylist with high sense of the visual. Difficulties in plot summary. Deliberately obscuring the plot using language. Total abandonment of reason for imagination. Like poetry, uses words and images which can mean several, often contradictory, things at once. Dense weave of a language designed as much to shield the plot summary than to reveal them. Usage of a lexicon of old and obscure Tamil words. New readers who enter the Tamil literary landscape have often been made to believe about the works of Konangi as unapproachable, chaotic and incomprehensible by the general opinions of the media. Due to this some of Konangi's works (novels) often remain as a vast verbal labyrinth of extraordinary images waiting to be deciphered. Quotes Sayings quoted below appeared in magazines and from his own works and interviews. You have to become a bird in order to understand a tree. Art has no relation with conscious intelligence. It is inherently a fragile thing. Its origins are unknown and at its center are clouds of cold blackness. The aesthetic experience at its summit becomes invisible and disrupts the readers perseverance in understanding it. [See: The imminence of a revelation that does not occur.] While my characters are highly instinctive, my stories take birth from the sub-conscious and often oscillate into the world of unconscious. My stories are born out of blindness and not seeing too far ahead. Sculpting has a direct relation with the evolution of the language of my later stories. The traditional idea of Plot essentially limits the possibilities of all fiction. Art is like the process of weaving. In travel, like music the land of dreams appear out of nowhere and follows us. Art has nothing to do with either wisdom or understanding. It doesn't have purpose nor intention. Its on its own. Fictional landscapes resembles waterscapes in general and fiction is born at the moment, the fusion of two unknown creatures that lives inside it occurs. Stories are living things and they have souls residing inside them. Beauty when found is often accompanied with a feeling of sense of terror. I’ve inherited a