![]() ![]() Mukundan had traveled to Delhi in 1962, as a young man, in search of a job, and over the next four decades, while working in the French Embassy, he has observed how the city has been transformed from a small village to a megapolis. The novel was inspired by various events that greatly influenced the author's life during the 40 years spent in New Delhi, since 1962. ![]() It also won several awards including the first Kamala Suraiyya Award.ĭelhi Gadhakal has been penned in the backdrop of New Delhi, the city to which the author's name has been associated probably even more than his hometown, Mayyazhi (Mahe). The novel received much critical praise and soon went on to become one of the best-selling novels of the year. It took three years for Mukundan to finish the novel. It was translated from Malayalam by Fathima E. The novel has as protagonist a leftist Kerala youth, named Sahadevan, who had the shock of his life when he landed in Delhi to hear the news of Chinese attack on India. The novel portrays the various events that greatly influenced the author's life during the 40 years spent in New Delhi, since 1962. ![]() Delhi Gadhakal ( Tales from Delhi) is a Malayalam language novel by M. ![]()
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