Rendering-Endeavors

This short story was first published in the January 1957 issue of Mangalodhyam, a renowned Malayalam magazine. Clear evidence suggests that the author of the work is Veerabhadra Pillai. It is believed that he originally wrote this story with the intention of including it in a larger collection. The Secret Speaker In the suburban area, at this late hour of the night, it was unusual to see any lights still on. The dim, eerie yellow glow streaming through a tattered curtain cast shifting shapes on the wall, creating an unsettling atmosphere. The cracked and fissured tar road looked like something out of a nightmare, a dark and jagged path leading to nowhere. Nearby, a narrow gutter glittered faintly as water trickled through it. A few pigs likely slumbered in its murky depths, their occasional snorts, snores, and gasping noises breaking the stillness. I had been waiting for a bus for what felt like an eternity. It must have been 8:30 at night already, and hunger gnawed at me. I wasn’t...

  Chapter 1 - Torrential waters 1917 November 7, was an insufferable winter day. October to January are the four months Russia shears off from Earth. Escalated cutthroat cold snow layer, with its frozen fingers clawing that huge nation tears it out from the soil. The next few months, the prisoning of that nation in some abysmal space. By squeezing its last ounce of hope, burning the last piece of wood that nation battles with it. Each humane resisting effort is transcribed into journals and literature. Release from the clutches of cold weather at the end of February is like the rebirth of Russia. Wriggling out from the dark womb, gently finding its way through the cold slow layer, steps into the new sunshine world beneath a fresh blue sky. Trees, Birds, Reptiles along with humankind every creature is resurrected. That part of the world knows the secret of death and the coming-alive life cycle. But that November was different. Under the grayish snow layer, bullets were fired. The ...