Jeyamohan

B Jeyamohan also credited as Jayamohan is a Tamil and Malayalam writer and literary critic His bestknown and critically acclaimed work is Vishnupuram a deeply layered fantasy set as a quest through various schools of Indian philosophy and mythology In 2014 he started his most ambitious work Venmurasu a modern renarration of the epic Mahabharatha His other wellknown novels include Rubber Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural Kanyakumari Kaadu Pani Manidhan Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai The early major influences in his life have been the humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Drawing on the strength of his life experiences and extensive travel around India Jeyamohan is able to reexamine and interpret the essence of Indias rich literary and classical traditions