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Praise all the way for Kovilan in home village

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On getting Kendra Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

KANDANASSERY (THRISSUR): The renowned writer Kovilan who has been selected for the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Fellowship was felicitated by the people of his home village Kandanassery, about 5 km off Guruvayur, on Sunday.

Leading writers, including Sukumar Azhikode, Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan, C.V. Sreeraman and P.V. Krishnan Nair, joined the people for felicitating Kovilan who has vividly and passionately chronicled the life, culture and topography of this village.

Inaugurating the function, Prof. Azhikode said while the Kendra Sahitya Akademi has given him the Fellowship only now, the people of Kandanassery had demonstrated the much more valuable honour they had bestowed on him long back by calling him `Ayyappettan.' Kovilan was an excavator and not a surveyor of the areas in which he lived, and through his intense digging he could locate and bring out the volcanoes of energy and strength in the deeper layers of the lives of the people of the area, he said.

Poet Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan said the conventional aesthetic paradigms were insufficient to properly evaluate the Malayalam literature which has its own unique origin, narrative style and even the rhythm. Dr. Krishnan Nair, who is also the Kerala Sahitya Akademi secretary, said that of late, Keralites were abandoning the culture of recognising the great personalities around them.

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