Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Born on January 21, 1908, in Kottayam district, Kerala, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a Malayalam, fiction author. He was a novelist, humanist, short story writer and freedom fighter. He was the oldest offspring of his parents.

His dad was in the timber business. In the wake of starting his studies at the nearby Malayalam medium school, He went to the English medium school five miles away in Vaikom. During school days, Basheer got in touch with Mahatma Gandhi's ideology.

He began wearing Khaddar, motivated by the Swadeshi movement. At the point when Gandhi came to Vaikom to take part in the VaikomSatyagraham in 1924, he went to see him. He figured out how to get on to the auto in which Gandhi voyaged and contact his hand, an affectionate memory Basheer later specified in a significant number of his works.

He used to visit Gandhi's Satyagraha Ashram at Vaikom consistently. He took part in freedom struggles and went to prison which also inspired his writings. Basheer's cult classics gained him a respected position in the Indian Literature.

He left Kerala to do many menial jobs in many cities of India. In mid- the 1930s, he returned Ernakulam and found out that his family impoverished and business bankrupt. He started finding a job. He strolled into the workplace of a daily paper Jayakesari whose editorial manager was additionally its sole worker.

He didn't have a work to offer, however, offered to pay cash if Basheer composed a story for the paper. Thus Basheer ended up wrote stories for Jayakesari, and it was in this paper his first story "EnteThankam" distributed in the year 1937, which was a path breaker romantic fiction in Malayalam, it had its courageous woman a dull complexioned hunchback.

His initial stories were distributed in the vicinity of 1937 and 1941 in Navajeevan, week after week distributed in Trivandrum back then. All of Basheer'swork viewed as falling under the prose fiction categories– short stories and novels, however, there is additionally a one-act play and volumes of articles and memories.

Basheer's fiction is fluctuated and brimming with contrasts. His artistic vocation began off with the novel Premalekhanam, a humorous romantic tale in 1943. Another book trailed by the novel tiled Balyakalasakhi, a sad love story in 1944.

In 1945, he wrote autobiographical book name Janmadinam is about an author attempting to nourish himself on his birthday. Basheer wrote the novel Shabdangal in 1947, which confronted substantial feedback for vulgarity and violence.

There are many more books that Basheer wrote such as Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu, SthalathePradhanaDivyan, MucheettukalikkaranteMakal, AnavariyumPonkurishum and many more. He also wrote many letters, essays, and speeches.

One of his novels named Mathilukal was later turned into the movie by Adoor Gopalakrishnan Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan >> Read More... with the same title starring Mammootty as Basheer. Basheer won many honors for his works such as LalithambikaAntharjanam Award in 1992, MuttathuVarkey Award and Vallathol Award in 1993, Sahitya Akademi in 1970 and many more.