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Rajam Krishnan with her deep insight probes into their lives and problems. She records their miseries with an extraordinary empathy and presents them almost in their own dialect. When she visits their living areas, she takes pains to note all the minute details.When the Kurinji Blooms is a saga of three generations of two families of Badagas spanning fifty years. The way she exploits their original language and diction in her novels is noteworthy. Her kurinji tendeals with the lives of the tribes of the Nilgris Hills. In all these novels, she deals with the socio-economic issues that cause havoc to the downtrodden and the women. The tribal believe in black magic spells, the spirit, and rebirth. Though they are the true believers of God and they live very close to nature, they believe in superstitious things which sometimes dominate their life.Present paper will seek to investigate the knowledge of tradition against modernity and the transformation of tribal life is depicted. Also, enlightens about the devastation of ethical values of Badaga tribe of Tamil Nadu with a re-reading of Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms.