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The farmer-Part-2

    In all, he already owed forty measures of paddy and a hundred and twenty rupees towards the cost of seeds and labour charges. Over and above it all, would be the burden of the allegation of having surreptiously diverted the water away from his fields. Still, if only he could get a hundred rupees [...]


Thakazhi Shiva Shankara Pillai

       One of the fortunate  coincidences of my growing up years, was the presence of a public library  just next door.  They had a sizeable collection of  books by all the contemporary malayalam writers.  Much of what I read, in my teenage years,  was by an author named Muttathu Varky, whose books belonged to the [...]