KHASAKKINTE ITIHAS AM BY O .V . Vijayan by Akshitha Madhu

Ottupulackal velukuty Vijayan (2 June 1930 to 30 March 2005) commonly known as o V Vijayan  was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was in important figure in modern Malayalam language literature . Best known for his first novel KHASAKKINTE ITIHASAM (1969) , Vijayan was the author of  six novels, nine short story collection and nine collection of essays memoirs and reflections . He is born in Palakkad in1930, Vijayan graduated from Victoria college in Palakkad and obtained a master's degree in engineering english literature from residentcy college , Madras
                                             The English language as a word that can aptly summeris the book :magic.amidst there pages is sketched portrait of a place named khask . A sleepy hamplet isolated from the relatively . Bustling town of Palakkad in northern Kerala is enigmatic bpalms the little village is inhabited by men & women who stand apart from most of the cliches
                 To say that I loved  the landscape of this tale would be an understatement.I can think and listen to the  wind moaning howling or raging among the palm fronds its is proudly visual and marks it left on my mind will not be erased for years to come.
                                    It is the tale of journey both in the physical and spiritual self of a man Ravi  little  wonder though  for very few people I know have been left unmoved by the landscape of khasak.