Still life in Kerala: Portraits by Punaloor Rajan

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 got from Chemmeen.) Rajan took this picture keeping in mind Basheer’s description of Thakazhi as a “famer of words”.