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October 10, 2002 

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INSPIRING NOVEL BY A POLIO-STRICKEN WOMAN

Sarasu, Pallikkal House, near Kumbalam Poika, Pathanamthitta

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Polio wouldn’t allow her to stir out of her bed without someone’s help.  Her deformed fingers cannot hold large books.  She has read only a few books.  Yet these handicaps haven’t prevented Sarasu, Pallikkal House, near Kumbalam Poika, Pathanamthitta from writing her autobiographical novel, ‘This is my story and verse’.

Her book isn’t a memoir alone.  “God has been turning me into an instrument to write the book”, she says.  That must be true, or else how could she, who cannot hold the pen continuously for more than a few minutes, have accomplished such a task.

“While staying at Cheshire Home, Thiruvananthapuram, I read a few books, mostly autobiographies of Gandhiji, Norma Singer etc.  They have influenced my life a lot”, she says.

After 20 years at Cheshire Home, she returned home and started her literary effort.  Those at home didn’t know that her scribblings in a notebook were part of a novel.

Her work is presented as the memoirs of a girl, Lisba.  The book, which sold out within a few days of its publication, is planned to be brought out in English too.

In the introduction to the book, Dr.Babu Paul wrote that the book will be an inspiration for those who grope in the depths of helplessness.

“I have more to write.  But at present my effort is towards organizing a charitable society.  That would enable me to help many helpless ones to my ability”, says 45-year-old Sarasu.

 

Courtesy: Staff Representative, Vanitha, June 1-14, 2000

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