Pradeep VM
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What do you do when you realize nobody cares whether you are alive or dead? You protest, at least that is what many people do. And that is what Velayudhan did in The Village of Shadows. He protested by making illicit liquor with every nasty thing he could think of. And people loved his liquor.…
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Again returning to those hardy friends who have read my novel The Village of Shadows: https://notionpress.com/read/the-village-of-shadows Some have asked me about the mysterious and secretive Munshi. He is an old man who has inhabited the village for as long as any one could remember. How he got the name Munshi meaning a scholar is also…
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In the previous post I discussed some details about what I had in mind while writing about the ending of my novel: The Village of Shadows. To explain graphically what was in my thoughts, the image was that of the Northern Lights, colorful and grave but not burning anything. Why should the Northern Lights come…
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I will assume that you my dear hardy reader has actually read through the novel. It must have struck you as disjointed with no specific timeline and indeed not even a clear protagonist or anti protagonist. It is just a collective of small timers in a village. If you thought so you are right. Life…
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In my novel The Village of Shadows I tried to examine life in a small village in Kerala about fifty years ago. Life then was different with little worrying and little entertaining. So the villagers often drifted into ways not quite appropriate. The novel as such does not attempt to be judgemental. It merely describes…
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The novel ‘The Village of Shafows’ ends in a strange manner with moth flameless, smokeless colourful hues enveloping the village for 18 days. This massive Aurora does not generate heat or fire , does not burn anything It is a purging, a flushing of some undefined evil forces which had overtaken the village. Hopefully it…
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The novel “The Village of Shadows” is obviously about a village. A small peaceful village in south Kerala. Such villages with people very much into peace and quiet would be familiar to people of Kerala above fifty years of age. That means the life described in the story is over half a century old. Such…
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Thriller is where you know what is going to happen but not the characters in the story . Suspence is when you have no idea what is happening. A novel with a few deaths and murders is not necessarily a thriller, especially when no attempt is made by the author to make the deaths thrilling…
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There is no reason why anyone should cry. It doesn’t solve any problems. And few people who are not actors look good when they cry and salty tears wet their face. So why cry? Maybe it helps to reduce some kind of stress in you. Weep it out in a way. That is what Raechel…
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In the Village of Shadows some deaths are accounted for. Personal vengeance, sudden outburst of anger, frustration and depression. But some of the deaths including the first one.that of Chodiyan Sudhi remain unexplained. The Village lore abounds in tales of powerful forces beyond human comprehension. In the novel the fears of the villagers come to…
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