The Sixth Finger: Novel - Ramakrishnan, Malayatoor
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Aaram Viral, a novel [Malayatoor] published three years before his death in 1997, has now found a good English translation. The Sixth Finger, portraying 1970s-80s south India, reads all the more relevant today, when the country has its burgeoning babas effectively competing with Hindu gods in number.

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Aaram Viral, a novel [Malayatoor] published three years before his death in 1997, has now found a good English translation. The Sixth Finger, portraying 1970s-80s south India, reads all the more relevant today, when the country has its burgeoning babas effectively competing with Hindu gods in number.
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MALAYATOOR RAMAKRISHNAN (1927-1997) started his career as an advocate and worked as a sub-editor in The Free Press Journal in Mumbai before joining the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1957. Malayatoor wrote a semi-autobiographical work Verukal (Roots), which won him the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award. In 1981, he resigned from the IAS to devote himself to writing. From 1981 to 1997, he wrote his other famous novels including Yakshi, Yanthram, Nettoor Mathom and Amritham Thedi, besides short stories and scripts for several films. For some years, he was chairman of the Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi.