Malayattoor Ramakrishnan

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തൻ്റെ വേരുകൾ തിരിച്ചറിയുന്ന രഘു എന്ന നഗരകുടിയാൻ്റെ ഗ്രാമീണ ഗൃഹാതുരത്തം.ലളിതമായ, ഗ്രാമീണ വഴികളിലൂടെ സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന രചനാവൈഭവം

Aboobacker Sidheeq M

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തൻ്റെ വേരുകൾ തിരിച്ചറിയുന്ന രഘു എന്ന നഗരകുടിയാൻ്റെ ഗ്രാമീണ ഗൃഹാതുരത്തം.ലളിതമായ, ഗ്രാമീണ വഴികളിലൂടെ സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന രചനാവൈഭവം

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This must be one of the very first ( If I recall it right, it was) novels that I read as a child. It was just lying around because one of my cousins had it as a paper for Malayalam. Later however I read more of malayatoor's like the more popular and more Malayatoorish Yakshi and Yantram. How ever this has a special spot in my heart since like I mentioned might have been my first book.

The title in Malayalam means roots and it is a bit symbolic in a way that it talks about the ancestral roots of the protagonist. This might actually have been an autobiographical novel by Malayatoor considering like the protagonist, Raghu the author himself had Tamil-Brahmin ancestry and was a civil servant ( Civil servancy here refers to a particularly decorated and coveted level of beurocrasy in India which can be achieved (although not exclusively) by getting through a very difficult (the probably of clearing it is apparently rated at ~2%) competitive written examination and a following personal interview) Although that isn't necessary for his one other novel Yantram also tells the story of another civil servant. It was just that the author chose to articulate the story in the backgrounds he knew and experienced.

The novel in style describes the life and times of Raghu in retrospect which kind was(is?) a popular style of narrative in Malayalam. One other personal favorite of mine 'Oru desathinte Kadha' is also written in the style of an elaborate memoir. 

  

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