He took up a temporary job at the Telephones department in Kasargode where he became close to the Leftist trade union circles. He supported himself by taking up odd jobs and writing in pulp magazines all the while reading voraciously. The suicide of a close friend drove him to drop out of college and constantly travel the country in search of physical and spiritual experience. After high school, Jeyamohan was pressured by his father to take up commerce and accountancy in college. Jeyamohan's first publication during schooldays was in Ratnabala, a children's magazine, followed by a host of publications in popular weeklies. Very early on, Jeyamohan was inspired by his mother to take up writing. Bahuleyan's family followed him around on his work-related transfers to Thiruvattar and Arumanai towns in the Kanyakumari district. 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. 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. īorn into a Malayali Nair family in the Kanyakumari district that straddles Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Jeyamohan is equally adept in Tamil and Malayalam. 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. The early major influences in his life have been the humanitarian thinkers Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His other well-known novels include Rubber, Pin Thodarum Nizhalin Kural, Kanyakumari, Kaadu, Pani Manidhan, Eazhaam Ulagam and Kotravai. In 2014, he started his most ambitious work Venmurasu, a modern renarration of the epic Mahabharata. His best-known and most critically acclaimed work is Vishnupuram, a fantasy set as a quest through various schools of Indian philosophy and mythology. 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.
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