# Some Grassway Realities with a Romantic Touch

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**Author:** K. R. Surendran
 **Pages:** 112 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:**
HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-877-8 (9788181578778) FB 978-81-8157-
878-5 (9788181578785)

_**About the Author**_
 K. R. Surendran is a journalist. He has published two collections
of short stories, two novels and one novella in Malayalam. This is his first novel
in English.

_**Teaser**_
 “Born in an orthodox family in one of the northern districts of Kerala,
with a communist background, I was always proud of Grassway about which I started
hearing from my early days. My father was an ardent communist, sad to say, he is
no more, was a staunch follower of the communist idea and also its vanguard leaders
like A.K.G., E.M.S., Rajeswara Rao, Sunderayya, P. Krishna Pillai and several other
leaders. The list is endless and hence I don’t dare to name them one by one. He 
was an ardent admirer of Comrade A.K.G., whom he saw as his role model till his 
death. A.K.G. always fought for the downtrodden and underwent ruthless assaults 
and long terms of imprisonment. Whenever he talked about his role model, he talked
with one thousand tongues, breathlessly, with a kind of divine devotion. A huge 
portrait of A.K.G. is still maintained on the white wall of my house, the portrait
of a smiling, inspiring firebrand revolutionary. Unfortunately the split in the 
great Communist Party of India filled him with despair and sorrow, he slowly and
hesitatingly withdrew from the front to the inner recess of our home.”

[From Chapter 2]