The Man who Never was

Karuna Khandakavyam  by  Kumaran Asan My rating:  5 of 5 stars View all my reviews

ഒരു തെരുവിന്റെ കഥ | Oru Theruvinte Kadha by S.K. Pottekkatt My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews Oru theruvinte kadha (The story of a street), as the name implies is the tale of a street, located in real life as Mittayi theruvu (Sweetmeat Street), in the Kasaragod district in Kerala. Malayalam writers, like their counterparts in India, as well as around the world, have a penchant of falling in love with a particular place or local where they were born or spent a lot of their life in. Be it the fabled land of Khasak in O.V. Vijayan’s ‘Khasankinte Ithihasam ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം Khasakkinte Ithihasam (The Legends of Khasak)’, or current day Mahe, immortalized by M. Mukundan in ‘ മയ്യഴിപ്പുഴയുടെ തീരങ്ങളിൽ Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil ’ (On the banks of the River Mayyazhi). Add to that another, from Malayalam’s beloved globetrotting travel writer S.K. Pottekkatt. Strangely I’m reminded of a phrase from the 2012 cult classic ‘D