Kannanari has a nose for crime – or at least, the making of it. He is interested in the bits and the pieces, the nightmares and foiled dreams, the neglect and indignity that birth a criminal. Almost ...

The Menon Investigation is set in the India governed by caste rules. Here, inter-caste couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, in Coimbatore in 2023. | Photo Credit: Periasamy M “Don’t go around in the ...

Kannanari’s The Menon Investigation uses the frame of a crime thriller to expose the deep entrenchment of caste and patriarchy in modern India. Through its flawed protagonist Vijay Menon, the novel ...

Kannanari sees fiction as truth-telling, with stories shaped by long-maturing ideas, disciplined craft, and a focus on language rather than improvisation. His novels intertwine character and society, ...

Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s new novel, his second, unfolds as a police procedural, though an unusual one. The Menon Investigation opens with an act of violent killing. In 2009, a 35-year-old ...

Seasoned Tamil filmmaker Gautham Vasudev Menon said his comments on anti-caste films were “blown out of proportion.” Recently, in a YouTube interview, Gautham’s opinion on the surge of films ...