Meeting at the residential flat of A. Purushothaman and A. Haridranathan at Guruvayur
2011 October 11
The summary of the discussions is as follows.
- An annotated bibliographical index of all works of kovilan shall be prepared including information about the first / latest editions published.
- An index of books and articles about kovilan and interviews with kovilan shall be prepared.
- A long term project involving detailed study of kovilan’s works shall be initiated .
- Every year, one specific work of Kovilan ( Example : A minus B ) shall be identified for detailed study.
- Prominent critics ( E.P.Rajagopalan / Sunil P. Ilayitam / E.V.Ramakrishnan / Kalpetta Balakrishnan/ etc ) may be approached well in advance with a request to prepare an essay on a topic relevant to malayalam literature ( Example : Modern malayalam novel / short story ) and explore it with Kovilan’s specific work/works as background.
- A kovilan memorial talk on different aspects of fiction by an eminent person , preferably of all India background , shall be organised every year.
- Essay competitions on topics relevant to Kovilan’s works shall be conducted for high school / college students . The topic along with key words shall be announced well in advance so that sufficient time ( about 3 months ) is given for the students to prepare and submit the essay and for evaluating the essays received ( about one month ).
- Every year ,a seminar shall be organised around 2nd June . The principal essay shall be presented during the seminar and discussions held . The winners of the essay competition shall be felicitated during the seminar.
- Venu Edakkazhiyur ( 09447095760 ) will be the contact person ( venuedakkazhiyur@gmail.com , Venu Edakkazhiyur, BAMSURI , Post Puthanpalli -680103 , Thrissur Dist , Kerala )
- The next meeting of the study group shall be held on 20th October 2010
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