Book Review - Balyakalasakhi

 Author                   : Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Year of publication :1944

Language                :Malayalam

Central Characters  :Majeed & Suhra

Rating                      : 5/5

                          Balyakalasakhi , is a malayalam romantic tragedy novel written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. The story mainly discuss about the teenage romance of Majeed and Suhra. 

              Majeed and Suhra were neighbours  and childhood friends. They studied in the same school. Majeed was born in a very rich family, so his father decided to send him to town for higher studies but Suhra forced to wind up her schooling after her father's death. Majeed requested his father to sponsor Suhra but he refused. Later Majeed leaves his house after an argument with  his father and he returned after a long time. On his return, he finds that his family lost all their money and assets and also Suhra married to someone else. That was a big shock to him. While Suhra's husband was very abusive and it became difficult for her to stay with him. So, she returned to her home and Majeed commands to her 'don't go back' and she stays. After that Majeed leaves the village in search of a job and he reached a North Indian city. He got a job but one day he  meet with an accident and he lost his leg. The story ends were Majeed got letters from his mom  informed that Suhra is sick and subsequently of Suhra's death. 

               ' Immini Vallya Onnu' is a famous phrase associated to Balyakalasakhi .One day ,teacher asked Majeed 'what is 1+1' ,He replied 'immini vallya onnu' which means 'a slightly bigger one'. Majeed's explained his new theory to Suhra as, When two small rivers are combined, what happened? ,one big river is formed like this when two ones are combined a slightly bigger one is formed. Balyakalasakhi is largely autobiographical ,Basheer said that ,Majeed is himself.  The most interesting part of every Basheer books is the language used by him. Basheer commonly used colloquial language which makes his books unique.