TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nair, Anita Ed.
TI  - Where the rain is born : writings about Kerala 
SN  - 9780143029199
U1  - 894.812 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Penguin Books 
KW  -  
N1  - Contents
Introduction  vii
Anita Nair
I. The corridor  1
Balachandran Chullikkad
2 . Chasing the monsoon    5
Alexander Frater
3. Charlis and I  18
Shashi Tharoor
4. Marthanda Varma  41
C. V Raman Pillai
5. The village before time  47
VK Madhavan Kutty
6. Chemmeen   55
Thakazhi S ivasankara Pillai  
7. Grandmother's funeral 64
feet Thayil
8 In search of doubting Thomas   65
William Dalrymple
9. The blue light   74
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
I 0. Fool's paradise?   87
Ammujoseph
II. Where 'everything is different'  96
Abu Abraham
I2. The first lessons   104
O.V Vijayan
I 3. Butter chicken in Ludhiana   109
Pankaj Mishra
I4. The expanse of imagination   122
Jayanth Kodkani
I5. Karkitakam   131
M.T Vasudevan Nair
I6. The voice    148
Suresh Menon
I7. Mattancheri m Manhattan    155
Ayyappa Panikker
I 8. The moor's last sigh   157
Salman Rushdie 
I 9. Sesame seeds, flowers, water 175 
Lalithambika Antherjanam
20. The garden of the antlions   185
Paul Zacharia 
21. Footballer   194
Ravi Menon 
22. On the banks of the Mayyazhi   200
M. Mukundan
23 . The power of one   208
Bill Aitken 
24. God's own country  219
A rundhati Roy 
25. Hangman's journal  230
Shashi Warrier 
26. Those were the daze   239
Shreekumar Varma 
27. Ancient promises   247
Ja ishree Misra 
28. The thief of memories   262
Vijay Nambisan
29. The mountain that was as flat as a football field on the top 270
Anita Nair
3 0. Stalinist and Indian: E.M.S. Namboodiripad 277 
Ramachandra Guha
3I. The bonsai tree  281
David Davidar 
32. Mundu, meesha, kumbha, koda: The sartorial 289
splendour of the Malayali male
Geeta Doctor
3 3. The town they come from   299
C.P Surendran
34. The swamp  309
Kamala Das 
Notes on contributors   311
Copyright acknowledgements  316


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