Kathavu Thiranthathum Kadal

About the book

"This is a time when joint families are breaking up into separate families and they are also breaking up and standing as spare people. This change is inevitable. In the older generations, the parents would not separate but they would fight and quarrel beyond measure. You can't see a perpetual celebratory mother or father or a happy family. Fortunately, this poison of family feuds is now thankfully not spread to the next generation as unwilling, unhappy parents separate.

However, the problems and stress of a single parent are overwhelming without any guidance to deal with them. Men often do not take responsibility for child rearing at home. In single parenting, if the father gets custody of the child, it is his mother or sisters who raise the child. But this is not the case for women. I see everything (marriage problems and failures) as accidents. What kind of justification is it that we are the ones who get hurt, we are held responsible for these accidents and we are the ones who are also punished for the same?

I see this book as a guide to single parenting." - Brindha Sethu

About the author

S. Brinda (Brindha Sethu), poet, writer, and screenplay writer. She published her first poem in Kanaiyazhi magazine in 1995. In 1999, the first collection of poems 'Sharings about Rain' (Poonkuyil Publishing House) was published and in 2000 it won the 'Devamagal Literary Award'. In 2009, the second collection of poems 'A House Full of Sky' (Kalachuvadu Publishing House) was published and in 2014, her third collection of poems 'Stories Told To the Daughter' (Kalachuvadu Publishing House) won the SRV Literary Award in that year. In 2017 she has worked on the making of the 'Adisil' Tamil Literary Calendar. She assisted Director Geeta Ilagovan in the documentary 'Jaathigal Irukkedi Paapa'. She has written 'Kadhavu Thiranthathum Kadal' (Thamizhini- 2020), 'Aruvi Muthal Asuran Varai' (Kindle - 2020), and 'Kadal' (2020 - Kindle). She works in a private firm and writes movie screenplays.