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  1. Biography. [edit] Basheer was born on 21 January 1908 [2][3] in Thalayolaparambu (near Vaikom) Kottayam District, to Kayi Abdurahman, a timber merchant, and his wife, Kunjathumma, [4] as their eldest child. [5] . His siblings were Abdulkhader, Pathumma, Haneefa, Anumma and Aboobakker, in order from eldest and youngest.

  2. Jul 5, 1994 · Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was born on 21 st January 1908 and he is one of the prominent literary figures of Malayalam literature. He was also a freedom fighter, novelist and a humanist. His works are translated in many languages and got him worldwide acclaim.

  3. Jan 21, 2022 · Vaikom Muhammad Basheer was the master of disguise. Writer to revolutionary, he did it all. From a Hindu mendicant and a palmist to a magician's assistant and a private tutor, Basheer perfected the art of disguise. It reflected in his work. Tenzin Zompa. 21 January, 2022 09:51 am IST.

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  4. Jul 6, 2020 · Malayalam writer Vaikom Mohammed Basheer. (Credit: iemalayalam.com) Once upon a time in India, before Indian philosophers became institutionalised renouncers, philosophy flourished. But after the first century CE, strangely, the Subcontinent did not produce a single original philosopher.

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  5. This man was born to devout Muslim parents exactly one hundred years ago to be precise on January 21, 1908 at Thalayolapparambu, near Vaikom, in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore.

  6. As a key member of the Kerala Literary Renaissance, Basheer used his pen to strengthen the growing culture of egalitarianism in Kerala. Through his writings, he brought a sea of change to the landscape of Malayalam Literature.

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  8. Basheer would grow up to be one of the foremost fiction writers in India. He had little to do with the sublime world of books; afterall his parents were completely illiterate. But then he had a friend, Potti, who gave him story books to read. It was when he was in the ninth class that he ran away from home, partly in