O.V.Vijayan

On reading about the famous malayalam novelist, O.V.Vijayan i was reminded about the nostalgic pleasure on reading his work The Legends of Khasak. It was in November 2001 just before i was to appear in civil service mains exams. i was preparing at Indian Agricultural research Institute (pusa institute), New Delhi. As it was my third attempt at mains i was pretty annoyed at having to go thru the ritual of giving exams. Anyway pusa institute was a better place than JNU for i had spent the first four years of my life in JNU in extra-career activities and built up enough avenues of distraction. my schooltime friend sasi had got admission into pusa institute and was in to civil services preparation. that's how i ended up there. Another of my friend P.S. who had a taste for literature was also at pusa institute . As i was finding it difficult to read anything distantly related to upsc\ civil services, i asked him to give me some novels to read. he gave me the legends of khasak by O.V.Vijayan. I started to read in the morning and at a stretch finished it. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it but on completing it i felt as if i was rudely being awaked from a dream that i wanted to last forever.