Questions Asked to Valluvar by Harlots

This article signifies how one group of women, who should be the epitome of discipline, virtues, and mothers of nobles in society, have transformed into harlots for the sake of poverty and emotional hunger in the physical body by hurting themselves. The sublime subject of this article is to reflect on the way the government itself supports this and approves the same as how the fertile lands are converted into commercial lands. The drying tears of the harlots who happen to sell their physical bodies but spread the ray of dignity without selling their hearts are the nourishment for this society to become fertile. Considering the changes brought about in our society by the Tamil movements created during the contemporary period, the distinct part of this article captures the similarity between the expressions of the inner turmoil of the harlots in the new collection of poems 'Vanakkam Valluva' by the Tamil scholar 'Erode Tamilanpan' and the current scenario with illustrations from early and contemporary literary works

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