Publisher's Synopsis
Athul was an IT professional in Cognizant. His first appointment was at Coimbatore and later promoted and transferred to Ambattur, Chennai, India. He was familiar with that place in his childhood days, and he has so many cherished memories with Ambattur. As an adolescent youth of 20 years, he became acquainted with a beautiful lady Sakuntalacca. To him, it was deep love, his first charming for a lady.
When he was again in Ambattur as part of the transfer, he was in total confusion. To have a solution, his wife Shalini quit her job and they shifted to Perambalur with their children and mother. Perambalur was a middle place to Chennai, and they had an ancestral home there. He regularly traveled.in buses to the IT hub at Ambattur. On the first salary day here, as a gratitude, he planned a visit to Ambattur where Athul's distant sister was residing. He recollects his adolescent love affair and is eager to know the heroine in the love story.
The story illustrates adolescent behavior patterns and their findings. The end of the passional experience was heart-piercing and a warning to society. The story is woven around Tamil Nadu and the rich culture of that state. Actually, the story has got link to Kerala, The Palghat, and traditional Nair Tharavads. It states the migration of border state people in search of education, jobs, and of course life.
To sum up, The Statue at Ambattur is a story about an IT professional and his adolescent love affair. He in a later stage married another IT professional and they lived happily with two kids. But the lady that sparked first love in his heart never vanished but flashed again when he got an occasion after twenty-five years.
Athul, the main character was a skilled IT professional. and his wife Shalini, another IT professional, represents the modern youth of flourishing India.
