INSPIRING NOVEL BY A POLIO-STRICKEN WOMAN
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| 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
Contributed by: Administrator
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