Ernesto Che Guevara
and his Motorcycle Diaries to the left. A P J Abdul Kalam and
his Wings of Fire to the right. Maniyanpillai chuckles: “Not
bad company for a thief and his story, right?” Then he stops, and asks with the
conviction of a man who knows he belongs: “And why not? They had their stories,
I have mine; what does it matter that they are legends while I’m a petty
thief?”Indeed, what does it
matter?Not at all, if the
rip-roaring success if Maniyanpil
is a Malayalam writer who has published three works of fiction. He lives in Kottayam.
