Best Reads

There is no other person who has influenced the Malayalee intelligentsia like Prof. M. Krishnan Nair, through is weekly review of literature (Sahitya Vaaraphalam). It must have been him, who introduced the European and Latin American authors to malayalees, whose books usually hit gold here in Kerala, in sales! Early this year, I decided to subscribe the “Samakaalika Malayalam” weekly so that I wouldn’t miss any of his columns. Unfortunately, the first issue I received with my subscription, was having Krishnan Nair’s column on the cover! This issue of the weekly was a tribute to Krishnan Nair who had passed away, a couple of days earlier.

According to Krishnan Nair, there was only good literature and bad literature - nothing in between.
It was always my wish to make a list of the authors and books, Krishnan Nair recommended through his column, especially of world literature, so that it would serve as my wish-list for
reading - someday I will post the list!

You can access the archives of the columns he wrote (in Malayalam) for Malayalam weekly here (registration required). Or you can buy the hardbound volume of the compilation from DC books.