Basheer on canvas
SANGEETH KURIAN
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Portraying the evergreen writer Vaikkom M. Basheer was fun.
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In one sketch, the state’s favourite story teller Vaikkom Mohammed Basheer reclines on his easy chair listening to his favourite Hindi oldie “Sojarajakumari,” yet another frame showed him lost in thought under the shade of a tree.
A third one pictured him listening to a gramophone. The topic “Ottamara thanalile Valiya Ekkakka” saw children running riot with their imagination and portraying the unconventional story teller in all his endearing eccentricities.
Children in the age group of 10 to 15 years took part in the event which also included competitions that tested the literary creativity of children.
Enthusiastic
According to Vinod Vaisakhi, convenor, arts and culture of the event though the competition was open up to the level of plus two students, it was children belonging to the Upper Primary section who displayed the greatest interest in recreating the image of the writer in black and white.
The occasion was a caricature competition organised by the Basheer Sahityotsava Committee in connection with the 100th birth anniversary celebration of the writer in the city. The second event was based on a conversation “ente serettum posakom edukkunnundo ille” that depicts a school going routine taken from one of his famous work “Pathummayude Adu.”
The children were asked to extrapolate on the incomplete sentence.
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