It is a pastoral elegy written after the death of his friend, Edappally Raghavan Pillai.
Written in 1936, it is the bestseller of Malayalam literature.
Changampuzha's Ramanan became such a big hit, the Kerala University prescribed it as a textbook in Malayalam literature class.
Changampuzha himself was a literature student at Kerala University at that time.
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