the highest civilian honour bestowed by the Kerala Government, in 2022 MT’s first major work ‘Naalukettu’ — published in 1958 — won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1959. He has also ...
Born in 1933 in Kerala’s Palakkad district ... and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there. Naalukettu (1958) is the story of a young boy, Appunni, set in a joint ...