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By Our Staff Reporter
PUNNAYOORKULAM (THRISSUR), MARCH 8. After several years, she was returning to her native village. Writer Kamala Suraiyya was overcome with emotions as she visited the land where the Nalapat house stood, on Tuesday. She found that the place had changed. The Nalapat family had sold the land and only a `kavu' was left there. She was taken in a wheelchair to a pomegranate tree in the compound, mentioned in some of her stories. "My journey began here. I love this place, each grain of sand. But I had thought of never returning to Punnayoorkulam because people here said bad things when I became a Muslim. Don't they see that I look like a human being? Nobody wanted me. But all that is over. My wounds have healed,'' she said. The Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord accompanied Ms. Suraiyya. Ms. Weisbord's book on Ms. Suraiya, `The Love Queen of Malabar,' will be published in six months. "I've been working on the book for 10 years. I first met Ms. Suraiyya in 1995 after reading her works and knowing her through the writings of Geoffrey Moorhouse and Richard Frater. I felt attracted to Ms. Suraiyya because she was a complex person. She was traditional, yet progressive. She has shown us how much an Indian woman can grow. She was born into a Hindu family, went to a Christian school and eventually became a Muslim. There is no writer quite like her in the whole world,'' Ms. Weisbord said. "The Love Queen of Malabar' belongs to the genre, `literary non-fiction.' "The book tells a story about real things,'' Ms. Weisbord explained. Narration of Ms. Suraiyya's visit to Punnayoorkulam today would form the concluding chapter of the book. "I've come to bid goodbye to Punnayoorkulam. I don't think I'll come here again as a human being. I'll return as a bird and fly all over the place,'' Ms. Suraiyya said.
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