For example, Aa Enna Shmashaanathile Naarakam (Lemon tree in a cemetery called Aa) is an account of three men sitting under a lemon tree talking about a woman. The part that paints a picture of how children can become inhumanly brutal with their unfettered imagination is simply powerful. This book addresses the contemporary human mind trapped in a body that took millions of years of patient evolution to take shape. In our time and age, enabled by the Internet, no knowledge is forbidden but paradise still seems faraway. This illusory universe is what Nandakumar explores in his writing where a thousand stars collapse unto themselves in every breathing moment.

Source: The Hindu June 29, 2017 05:26 UTC