Memoirs written by S K Pottekkatt. He narrates, in his inimitble style, the encounters with many well-known as well as not-so-popular personalities. Among them are Jawaharlal Nehru, Pattam Thanupilla, Changampuzha Krishnapillai and many more.
Sankarankutty Kunhiraman Pottekkatt (Malayalam: ശങ്കരന്കുട്ടി കുഞ്ഞിരാമന് പൊറ്റെക്കാട്ട്), popularly known as S. K. Pottekkatt, was a famous Malayalam writer from Kerala, South India. He is the author of nearly sixty books which include ten novels, twenty-four collections of short stories, three anthologies of poems, eighteen travelogues, four plays, a collection of essays and a couple of books based on personal reminiscences. Pottekatt won the Jnanpith Award in 1980 for the novel Oru Desathinte Katha (The Story of a Locale). His works have been translated into English, Italian, Russian, German and Czech, besides all major Indian languages.
As a kid, i was mesmerized by the writing of S.K Pottekkatt. The visuals that were created by those words still remains in my memory even after two decades