[1] His novels and short stories encompass the emotional issues related to mass culture, sexual politics, fate of the marginalised and institutionalised religions.

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

The characters are based on people I met during my course as a school teacher in a village in Kasaragod.

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.