NEW DELHI: A journalist , if he is lucky, leaves behind his words. And we lost a bridge between the artist and the audience, as his former colleague and friend Faizal Khan says. Malayalam writer NS Madhavan recalls Nair as “one of the finest minds I had come across and also self-destructively reckless”.“I knew him for a long, long time. One only needed to meet Manoj Nair.Khan adds that Nair was a genius with a heart of gold. Alcohol took its toll on Nair and he reportedly wanted to write a novel called Dictionary of an Alcoholic.Nair was an itinerant.

Source: Economic Times June 10, 2019 01:18 UTC