Still life in Kerala: Portraits by Punaloor Rajan

Aug 29, 2015, 06:09 IST4 min

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The image is a portrait of the writer under a mangosteen tree in his compound at Kozhikode, Kerala. His visitors would range from ragpickers to famous writers ...

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The lone Basheer by the sea

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Basheer by the window of a moving train

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Rajan captured his muse&rsquos love for music by taking a picture of Basheer listening to the radio in his house

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1909-1998 Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad EMS, as he was popularly called, is credited for spearheading the Communist movement in Kerala. More important...

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b. 1933 MT Vasudevan Nair Padma Bhushan awardee MT Vasudevan Nair is one of India&rsquos most versatile writers of modern Malayalam literature. The 82-year-old is...

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An older MT on the sets of the film, Murappennu, (1965), which he directed

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b.1947 KPAC Lalitha &nbsp Her actual name is Maheshwari Amma, but the thespian and film actor came to be known as KPAC Lalitha because of her association with the...

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1934-2009 Kamala Das&nbsp &nbsp Kamala Das is Kerala&rsquos most famous poet, writer, feminist and iconoclast who converted to Islam later in life. She wrote abou...

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1912-1999 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai One of Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai&rsquos most famous novels is Chemmeen (1956), which examines the motif of chast...

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Rajan often shot Thakazhi in Kerala, and, in the image above, we see the writer working with a farmhand in his fields at Kuttanad, Kerala. (He bought the land with the royalty that he go...

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