Says the author: "All the characters and villages of Christian settlers were in my mind long before I began thinking about writing Ayussinte Pusthakam.

I wrote Ayussinte Pusthakam at a time when I was going through an emotionally difficult period; my relation with my father was strained and I was feeling very lonely.

The book is also about sin and sadness, written in a style and language that have been judiciously borrowed from The Bible."

He has contributed to journals and anthologies on literary and cultural studies including the Penguin collection, No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India.

[10][11] The play received Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi Award of 2008, and participated in several international festivals.