JAN-2011 ചിദംബര സ്മരണ (Balachandran Chullikaad)
Had started off on another book(Oru Theruvinde Katha by S K Pottekkatt) around a week ago; thats when Roopesh gave me this one saying "chetaai...read this..its a small one, won't take long and it has a few nice stories"
So started reading this in the first week of Jan-11.
As folks told me, Balachandran Chullikaad is more famous as a poet rather than a writer. This book is a kind of autobiography wherein he has illustrated snippets of his life through short stories/incidents(spanning 5-10 pages each)
The stories are pretty hard-hitting, the kind of "no-holds barred" writing style, few of which talks about lust,women,liquor...
Not many would appeal to the kind of "direct"(and outrageous, if few might term it) writing, but overall, I liked reading it
All of them are short stories spanning 4-5 pages(max), all snippets of his life.
We can paint a picture of him, about his being a 'rebel'(naxalite) during the 70's, being thrown out of the house, having a love marriage, struggling in life and also a regular drinker as he goes about writing his poetry and attending various poet seminars around the world.
But all the stories(not sure if all of them are true because some of them seem very dramatic) make up for a interesting read.
The title story 'chidambara smarana' is about his rememberance of his parents as he observes an old-aged couple going about their daily chores in life in a temple complex
Overall, a nice read...!!
So started reading this in the first week of Jan-11.
As folks told me, Balachandran Chullikaad is more famous as a poet rather than a writer. This book is a kind of autobiography wherein he has illustrated snippets of his life through short stories/incidents(spanning 5-10 pages each)
The stories are pretty hard-hitting, the kind of "no-holds barred" writing style, few of which talks about lust,women,liquor...
Not many would appeal to the kind of "direct"(and outrageous, if few might term it) writing, but overall, I liked reading it
All of them are short stories spanning 4-5 pages(max), all snippets of his life. We can paint a picture of him, about his being a 'rebel'(naxalite) during the 70's, being thrown out of the house, having a love marriage, struggling in life and also a regular drinker as he goes about writing his poetry and attending various poet seminars around the world.
But all the stories(not sure if all of them are true because some of them seem very dramatic) make up for a interesting read.
The title story 'chidambara smarana' is about his rememberance of his parents as he observes an old-aged couple going about their daily chores in life in a temple complex
Overall, a nice read...!!
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