"Ente Thankam" (My Darling) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.
[1][2] After doing menial jobs in cities such as Ajmer, Peshawar, Kashmir and Calcutta, Basheer returned to Ernakulam some time in the mid-1930s.
While trying his hands at various jobs, like washing vessels in hotels, he met a manufacturer of sports goods from Sialkot who offered him an agency in Kerala.
And Basheer finally returned home to find his father's business bankrupt and the family impoverished.
[3] Thus Basheer found himself writing stories for Jayakesari and it was in this paper that "Ente Thankam" (My Darling) was published in the year 1937.