Jeyamohan's first publication during schooldays was in ''Ratnabala'', a children's magazine, followed by a host of publications in popular weeklies. Bahuleyan's family followed him around on his work-related transfers to Thiruvattar and Arumanai towns in the Kanyakumari district.Very early on, Jeyamohan was inspired by his mother to take up writing. Jeyamohan's siblings were an elder brother and a younger sister. Visalakshi Amma hailed from a family of trade-unionists. Bahuleyan Pillai was an accounts clerk in the Arumanai registrar's office. Jeyamohan was born on 22 April 1962 in Thiruvarambu of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, to S.Bahuleyan Pillai and B.Visalakshi Amma. Their son Ajithan was born in 1993 and daughter Chaitanya in 1997. Jeyamohan was introduced to Arunmozhi Nangai as a reader and married her in 1991. He has also written scripts for Malayalam and Tamil movies. Jeyamohan's output includes nine novels, ten volumes of short-stories/plays, thirteen literary criticisms, five biographies of writers, six introductions to Indian and Western literature, three volumes on Hindu and Christian philosophy and numerous other translations and collections. However, the bulk of his work has been in Tamil. Drawing on the strength of his life experiences and extensive travel around India, Jeyamohan is able to re-examine and interpret the essence of India's rich literary and classical traditions.Born into a Malayali Nair family in the Kanyakumari district that straddles Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Jeyamohan is equally adept in Tamil and Malayalam. The early major influences in his life have been the humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In 2014, he started his most ambitious work Venmurasu, a modern renarration of the epic Mahabharata and successfully completed the same, thus creating the world's longest novel ever written.His other well-known novels include Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manidhan, Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai. Jeyamohan has worked in Department of Telecommunications at different places of Tamil Nadu.Bahuleyan Jeyamohan (born 22 April 1962) is an Indian Tamil and Malayalam language writer and literary critic from Nagercoil in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.His best-known and most critically acclaimed work is Vishnupuram, a fantasy set as a quest through various schools of Indian philosophy and mythology. Jeyamohan married Arunmozhi Nangai in the year 1991 and the couple has 2 children. Jeyamohan wrote his first full-fledged novel Rubber in 1988 which revealed the ecological and sociological impact of rubber cultivation in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Bodhi and Padugai were his next published ones and he was praised by critics for Padugai. Same year, Nadhi was published in Kanaiyazhi. In 1987, the journal Kollippaavai published his poem Kaidhi. His correspondence with senior Tamil writer Sundara Ramasami started during this period and he maintained the relationship till his death. After a series of incidents, he took up a temporary job at the Telephones department in Kasargode. During his commerce studies at Pioneer Kumarasamy College in Nagercoil, he became a victim of depression following his dearest friend’s death. Due to his father’s transfers, they stayed at different parts of Tamil Nadu as well as south Kerala. He was influenced a lot by his mother for his literary works and considers her as goddess Saraswathi. Jeyamohan was born on 22 April 1962 to S.Baguleyan Pillai and B.Visalakshi Amma in Arumanai, Nagercoil. He started his literal career in the early 1990’s. He is deeply influenced by the works of great humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manithan, Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai are other noted works. Vishnupuram is his best known and critically acclaimed work. He is also known as a literary critic from Nagercoil of Kanya Kumari, the southern district of Tamil Nadu. Jeyamohan, also pronounced as Jayamohan is a noted writer of Tamil and Malayalam languages.
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