Sujith Balakrishnan

  BEING IN SHIRSHASAN My Second Novel - Being in Shirshasan is available through Amazon : Kindle and Paper Back Editions. SYNOPSIS   Shiva, the protagonist of the novel, receives a letter after 14 years from his daughter Parineeti, requesting to come and meet them back in Bombay after he is released from jail in Dubai. An instant vigor enthralls Shiva’s thoughts but rapidly drops down when he thinks back the bitter past. Shiva qualms there is something wrong back at home. Shiva’s close acquaintance in Jail, Malikji advises him to forget the past and strongly believe for a positive start. Malikji predicts, Shiva will be pardoned and given release from Dubai Jail, six years before his full term of twenty years.   Malikji is the foreman of the carpentry work shop, where Shiva is assigned after the final verdict. Malikji has great respect inside the jail among all inmates including the police officers.   Shiva’s past is disclosed through flash back. Shiva, th...

An unforgettable image from Communist Kerala 2020 Patrician - Plebian Landlord - Serf Upperclass - Lowerclass Capitalist - Proletariat Freeman - Slave Let's forget the name of IG and three persons doing ETHAM. How can we classify these dialectics?

HUMANOID a collection of Malayalam Short Stories by  Sujith Balakrishnan

BEING IN SHIRSHASAN My Second Novel - " Being in Shirshasan" is published through Amazon Kindle. Set in the fast-developing city of Dubai, “Being in Shirshasan” portrays the life struggle and the ill incidents that befall on a lower-middle-class man, Shiva, and his family. Struggling to cope with his day-to-day crises, frustration mounts to an emotional outburst. At an odd hour, a misfortune completely changes their fate. After fourteen years Shiva receives a letter from his young adult daughter. With years still to spend in prison, where will this take him?

WITH SARA JOSEPH WITH VAISHAKHAN

Interview with the acclaimed writer Charu Nivedita by Sujith Balakrishnan Transgressive writing must be taboo in contemporary India. Is it due to its obscenity, its nakedness or its wildness? It should be nothing of the reasons but the utter hypocritical mindset developed from the frustration of a failed spring revolution in India. When openness, plurality, have been replaced by the superficial happiness achieved by materialistic wealth and fame, transgressiveness can’t prosper in such a society, they suppress and attack the person who tried to open up the nakedness of the body, the nakedness of sexual pleasures, the nakedness of utter truth, the nakedness of society. A society that wants to hide all the guilty pleasures but to enjoy in its full extend clandestinely and consider it as morally correct but morally sick as in the true sense. What India has come to know as ‘Transgressive’ writing is regarded by the rest of the world as ‘soft porn’ ‘Hedonism’ and even...

AMU Literary Festival AMU Literary Festival is a college festival that celebrates art, literature and social change. This one of a kind literary festival hosted by a University shall present before you a host of writers, poets, journalists and filmmakers. It is sponsored by top brands such as Pizza Hut. The dates of the college fest are from 8th to 10th March 2020. "The Chronicle of Golgotha Days " Novel by Sujith Balakrishnan, will be available at the literary festival through "My Book Shelf" Stall.