Ponniyin Selvan

Basic Introduction of Ponniyin Selvan About ponniyin selvan📚📚📚 This is a historical friction novel written by Kalki . The novel was first serialised in the weekly editions of kalki from 29 October 1950 to 16 May 1954, and released in book form of five parts in 1955.   In five volumes, or about 2,210 pages, it tells the story of early days of Arulmolivarman , who later became the great Chola  emperor Rajaraja Cholan I  (947 CE – 1014 CE). Kalki visited Sri Lanka  three times to gather information for it.  Ponniyin Selvan is widely considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written in Tamil literature.   It was first published as a series in the Kalki , a Tamil language magazine, during the 1950s and was later integrated into a novel. The craze for the series which was published weekly was such that it elevated the magazine circulation to reach a staggering figure of 71,366 copies – no mean achievement in a newly independent India. Even tod...