From ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ to ‘Mogamul’: Tamil audiobooks opens new doors to listeners and voice actors
The Hindu
Dubbing artistes and actors get an unexpected break voicing Tamil audiobooks, which are drawing a surge of listeners seeking comfort amid the pandemic
Priya Vasanth, a homemaker in Chennai, has just finished her household chores for the day. She does not reach for the remote to switch on a TV serial. Nor does she chat with her neighbours, the way she did before the pandemic. She plugs in her headphones. Eyes closed, keenly listening to the narration, Priya imagines the world created by Kalki Krishnamurthy’s classic Ponniyin Selvan. This is among the 45 Tamil literary works that she devoured through the lockdown in the form of audiobooks.With the Prajwal Revanna sexual abuse case taking new twists every day, JD(S) State president and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday appealed to the Hassan MP, who is his nephew, to return and subject himself to the legal process. This is the first time that such an appeal has been made by the family.
Amidst continuing protest over the murder of Anjali Ambiger in Hubballi, Home Minister G. Parameshwara, who visited the victim’s family on Monday, announced in a press conference that like the Neha Hiremath case, this too would be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for inquiry.