by A. J. PHILIP
A bust of S. K. Pottekkatt facing S.M. Street in Kozhikode SOURCE/Wikipedia
I was invited to deliver a lecture on S.K. Pottekatt at the Kerala Club in New Delhi on March 22 only because I am an admirer of the great writer whose birth centenary was celebrated on March 14. My first encounter with his writing was when I had to learn a lesson entitled Ulnaattil oru ulsavam (A festival in a village).
Whoever had chosen the excerpt from Pottekatt’s book Balidweep (Bali island) could not have selected a better representative piece of his writing. I enjoyed reading it several times, because I felt the writer was describing a temple festival in my own village in Kerala.
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