Ashok Kallarakkal was born in a village in Kerala, close to the southern tip of India. This is the same area Christopher Columbus had set out to when he accidentally landed in America. This is just to prove the importance of his birthplace in the world going back hundreds of years. This is also one land where one of the apostles preached in person and Islam got introduced at prophet's time itself. Thus the land he grew up was the cradle of secularist and balanced thought. No wonder they call Kerala ' God's Own Country'.He was born in a lower middle 'class' family. Infact, the land he grew up is so rich in 'class' consciousness that he need to explicitly display his 'class'.Books by Ashok Kallarakkal
Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.He became known for his protest novel “Untouchable” (1935), followed by other works on the Indian poor such as “Coolie” (1936) and “Two Leaves and a Bud” (1937). Books by Mulk Raj Anand The Singing Line Drawings By Hebbar The Indian Theatre Death of a Hero Reflections on a White Elephant Splendours of Kerala Lost Child and Other Stories Tri...
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