For me, it would be incomplete not to jot down something about Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Who is Basheer to me? Is he a mere writer whose book I read just for passing time on a dreary evening? No, he is a force that drives to life everyone who is losing the grip of it. He is someone who laughs at the agonies of life and whispers to me life is not as much drudging as I think. And if I have been here without falling down by tripping on the monotony of everydayness and dreariness, the credit also goes to this great writer who has taught me to laugh at sorrows though I am trying hard to get the trick!
