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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer's The Love Letters And Other Stories

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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was a famous Malayalam fiction writer , known for his disarmingly down-to-earth style of writing that made him popular among the common man as well as literary critics . Basheer is best known for his unconventional style of language , as he never differentiated between the literary language and the language spoken by the commoners .
The novel The Love Letters and Other Stories by V.M.Basheer is the English translation of his Malayalam novel Premalekhanam . The Love Letters and Other Stories (Premalekhanam) is Basheer’s first work to be published as a book in the year 1943 . The novel is a humorous story of love and also through this book the author attacks the religious conservatism and the dowry system .
The Love Letters and Other Stories (Premalekhanam) is a story about a young bank employee , Keshavan Nair , Hindu by religion and Saraamma , Christian by religion , beautiful , young and unemployed . The novel traces the journey of Keshavan Nair’s and Saraamma’s love story . Keshavan is haplessly in love with Saraamma . The novel gets the title from the letters that Keshavan composes to express his love for Saraamma . The story has a sarcastic take on the dowry system and is in favour of inter-religion marriage . The story has its setting in Travancore , Kerala . Saraamma lives with her father and her step-mother, while Keshavan Nair lodges on the upper floor belonging to Saraamma’s father . Saraamma’s mother died at a very early age when she was a
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