Bala Chandra Menon's book `Ariyathathu, Ariyedathu' released

Director, actor and screen playwright Balachandra Menon's book `Ariyathathu, Ariyendathu' was released by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy by handing it over to ONV Kurup in a function on Wednesday at Thiruvananthapuram. The book contains a collection of his works that narrate his life experience. Oommen Chandy said, Menon's book presents his life long experience and the characters included in this book are people whom we see in our day today life. ONV Kurup in his speech said, Bala Chandra Menon's creativity was known to him from his college days itself. Menon in his reply speech reacted in an emotional tone, ``I was in an exile, a self imposed seclusion, for the past one and a half years as I was residing with my son at Hyderabad, when the doctor advised me rest after contracting jaundice. My condition was very critical during that time and with God's grace I was able to recover. By the time many rumours spread and that experiences are narrated in my book''. Minister Ganesh Kumar, Kaviyur Ponnamma, former minister M.VijayaKumar and Prof. George Onakoor attended the function.