on his 75th birthday, i asked
can't they show some visuals or read out from your work?
and then he wrote on his pad
bring kha
and khasak in malayalam came
he asked me to read out
randu... natakkanirangi
i said, i read this book long long back
you tell me where it is
and he skipped through the pages
and he showed me
and i read out the paragraph
squatting on the floor
and then said, eatta, i read very well, alle
he said m
and i asked him to autograph that copy for me
he did
later, when i went next
that was the last time i met him
he wanted me to read out all the
stories in priyappetta kadhakal
my train was about to leave
i had few minutes
still i read, as much as i could
that was when we met last
he was an absolutely beautiful human being
very kind
one could be a child with him
you feel really protected, you can say any rubbish
no anger, no criticism
the only time he kind'o reprminaded me
reprimanded me
was when i used the term dogs to refer to the dogs there
he wrote on my note book, the names of those two dogs
he was like a breeze
it wahu
apara janmamayirunnus very easy to interact with him
i miss him
really really miss him
long long back, i wrote a little piece on edmund thomas clint
and i wrote, why don't our artistes go and check out the works of this great artist
who went immediately after that
to clint's home was vijayettan
that was his grace
i will never ever meet such a swathik eattan
and i recall right, he was the last person to bless me, as well
thalayil kaivec
suhrudangal
athe nira suhrudangal
you asked me, what i am going to do for his birthday
thank you
we both paid our heart felt homage
and my tears today, now, for vijayettan
thank you so very much
me too crying
ella kanneerinum ore uppu rasamanalle
sangatathinteyum, nashtathinteyum, vyasanathinteyum, swantham parajayathinteyum, chathickappetumbozhum
novumbozhum,
miss cheyyumbozhum,
nammal fail cheyyumozhum
thirichariyumbozhum,
athe uppurasam, alle
anadhiyaya kadalinte chuva
marichu kazhinjalum chilar anaadharavum
vijayettan orarthathil anandhanayirunnu, annum, innum
aarckum vendatha manushyarille,
oru effectinanu vijayan aalukalcku kemamavunnath
you know why he was so effective
he did his homework, he corrected, edited, polished, refined
the tragedy is that he is one great being who has been so misunderstood and so misinterpreted

from someone who happened to be touched by vijayan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._V._Vijayan