P.Sachidanandan( Anand) Malayalam Writer

                                      Anand (P.Sachidanandan), born in 1936 in Irinjalakuda in Trichur district in Kerala. He graduated in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum in 1958. He retired as Planning Director of the Central Water Commission after a career which included extended stints working in Gujrat, Mumbai and Bengal. He is an eminent Malayalam fiction writer and essayist, whose fiction reads almost like texts of high philosophy. He also worked in the military for four years in the Short Service Commission. His works do not conform exactly to any of the fictional forms currently in vogue. Anand has consistently tried to explore in his fiction fundamental issues of power, justice and the human condition. A major recurring theme in most of Anand's works is the way power and its various abusive manifestations inflict torturous pain and suffering on common people. The process of people coming to terms with this suffering over and over again appears in his works as an historical pattern. Some of his works betray a Kafkaesque streak. His works also demonstrate a deep sense of history, using not only personalities and events from the past, but also reflecting continuously on the lessons that the past teaches us. While denouncing the abuse of power, Anand does not advocate the overthrow of the institutions of power, for instance the state. He strikes a middle path that argues for more sensitization and conscientization of the institutions of power. He has received many awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award and Vaylar Award.

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Novels	Short story collection	Dramas	Other Books
Alkkoottam (The Crowd)	Asantham	Savaghoshyathra	Sambhashanangal
	Veedum Thadavum (Home and Prison)	Mukthipadham	(Dialogue with Sachithanandan, the poet)
Maranacertificate (The Death Certificate)
	Ira (Victim)
			Idavelakalil
Utharayanam	Odiyunna Kurisu (The Breaking Cross)		Jaivamanushyan (The Biological Man)
Abhayarthikal (The Refugees)
	Samvadam (Convesations)		Vettakaaranum
Marubhoomikal Undakunnathu (The Deserts come into existence)
			Virunnukaaranum
	Naalamathe Aani (The Fourth Nail.)		Prakriti, Paristhithi, Daaridryam, Jalam, Oorjam
Govardhante Yaathrakal (The Journeys of Govardhanan)	Kathakal, Aatmakathakal (Stories, autobiographies)
			Kannadilokam
Vyaasanum Vighneswaranum			Nashtapradeshangal
Apaharikkapetta Daivangal
Samharathinte Pusthakam
Vibhajanangal
Parinamathinte Bhoothangal (The Ghosts of Evolution)
Dweepukalum Theerangalum (Islands and Shores)