I was fascinated enough to go and hunt for the whole collection of “A Novel Time” books. Asokan, fondly referred to by readers (and himself) as GA. This was in a monthly novel-magazine that went by the name “A Novel Time” published by G. My introduction to Tamil pulp fiction was in my mid-to-late teenage years, when I came across a short detective novel by Pattukkottai Prabakar (PKP), featuring his detective couple, Bharath and Suseela, both partners at the fictional Moonlight Detective Agency. The content referred to in the definition relates to the works which have “pure entertainment” as their objective. The modern term has incorporated the story genre as an overall description of the original content and quality of the product. The paper was made from moistened wood fibre, rags, etc., circa 1920-1930’s. Pulp fiction was a term ‘originally’ coined to describe the ‘low-grade’ quality of the paper used to print inexpensive dime-store novels.
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