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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer's works were published as "fiction", but they represent profound truths about freedom struggles and the feelings aroused when the goal of such struggles is achieved.
BASHEER was born as the eldest child of his devout Muslim parents in the village of Thalayolaparambu in northern Travancore.
Basheer, like so many of those deeply involved in the movement to have an India that was free, did not fight battles that were already won.
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 Seasons India :: Malayalam Literature of India
This was followed by Ntuppuppakkoraanentarnnu (Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant, 1951), the English translation of which, by R. Asher of Edinburgh University, won worldwide acclaim.
Basheer's major works are peopled with characters drawn from his own Muslim milieu, whom he depicts in a manner that creates a strange combination of laughter and tears within the reader.
Mathilukal (Walls, 1955) is another great novella by Basheer which was made into a successful motion picture by the renowned film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/lit_malayalam_sea.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Vaikom Muhammad Basheer - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Vaikom Muhammad Basheer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 A Malayalam short novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
This short novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was originally written in 1953.
Basheer is known for his unique style characterized by the harmony of Islamic culture in its spontaneous interactions with the Hindu and Christian cultures.
Poverty and backwardness hold the community of Basheer characters together as tightly as the profound sense of human solidarity that emerges out of his thirty odd short novels.
www.shelterbelt.com /KJ/basheer1.html   (2156 words)

  
 Adoor Gopalakrishnan  One of the leading lights of the New Indian Cinema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mathilukal is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.
It is on his advice that Basheer resorts to a hunger strike, is arrested, and gets finally taken to the court for trial.
Basheer's simplicity, humor and humanism win him friends all over, no matter whether they are hardened criminals or strict jail officials.
www.kagw.com /adoor/Mathilukal.htm   (462 words)

  
 Biblio: Short Stories of Basheer Vaikom Muhammad by A Translation: Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The lands traversed by Basheer, the peaks he scaled, the abysmal depth he plunged to, cannot fail to amaze any reader.
AUTHOR: Born in 1908, in a small village Vaikom, Kerala, completed his study of Quran by the age of eight, and went to English School.
Inspired by Gandhiji's nationalist movement, he participated in the salt satyagraha on the Calicut beaches, and was jailed.
www.biblio.com /books/3557467.html   (366 words)

  
 Katha - Fiction, Katha for kids, young adults   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
More than five decades ago, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer altered the map of Malayalam fiction.
The private and the public, the world of action and the world of imagination, coalesced when Basheer wrote fiction and quasi-fiction.
Basheer’s ignorance of literary conventions, and the lack of the homogenizing social background that had moulded the writings of his contemporaries, combined with a native talent for narration, made him the unique writer that he was.
www.fictionindia.com /abouttheauthor.asp?sno=10   (225 words)

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