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This book is a collection of 20 articles published in various periodicals over a time. This book owes its origin to the efforts of a group of young men who got together to form ‘Pakshikkoottam Books’ and decided to have among others, one on P.K.Balakrishnan which they titled ‘The Heart of a Storm’. Though their project did not materialise, it resulted in this collection.

The articles included are:

1. Some Unbridled Observations on Kunjan Nambiar

2. Asan’s Poetic Essence and Problem of life and Death

3. Poetry of Kunjunni

4. On the essence of Kerala

5. Caste and Tribe

6. The Components of Advancement

7. A lead to the Origins of Sahodaraprasthanam

8. Backward Communities: A Lesson in History

9. Our Approach to Communalism

10. Kochappa Komma Union (an article on the prevailing political approach to an unified Kerala state, written-July 1953)

11. Today is August 15th

12. Some New Paternal Positions for Bappuji

13. Gandhiji and the Marxists

14. My Dear Kaliyanrathinam! You Live Long

15. An approach to Kuttipuzha

16. Tolstoy

17. Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon

18. A Great Human being I Saw (on Prof. N. Krishna Pillai)

19. Parvathy Ayyappan

20. On Mathai Manjooran

Publishers:D C Books, Kottayam –686001, Kerala State, India.
Published: August 2004.