I thoroughly support these views. these were exactly the lines i meant when i wrote that nandhini calls veerapandian her lover. like" anbe..." etc... when she talks to herself in the fourth and fifth parts (to be precise, when manimekalai comes to see nandini when she is hosted by sambuvarayar{ the last time i read the novel was two years ago.. but i have a kinda clear picture of this} these were the words nandini says to herself. she sees the head of veerapandian, calls him "en anbe" and herself as his "pattamagishi". then when manimegalai comes in she asks the head to go away. one can understand if she was lying bout her birth to someone else. but she was talking to herself and hence there can be no doubt in this regard that veerapandian was not her father but her lover. I shall continue in my next mail Prathiba
yes... i do've the same thought... but, why dint kalki tell us the truth? or he himself do not know? nandini is not a real character. nandini oru karpanai pathiram. then whats the problem in making a karpanai father for her?
when i read the novel for the very first time, i read it again only to search for nandini's father.... :(
confusion still continues...... waiting to c more on this topic....
>yes... i do've the same thought... but, why dint kalki >tell us the truth? or he himself do not know? nandini >is not a real character. nandini oru karpanai >pathiram. then whats the problem in making a karpanai >father for her?
Ah, but you see- that was the whole idea. Nandhini was a karpanai character and so Kalki could play around with it as much as he chose. He meant to leave nandhini's parentage a mystery- look how many people are brought into it! Kalki simply listed out a number of people who could possibly be her parets, and left his readers to puzzle over it, I think.