Author

My real name is John Joseph and assumed ‘Joy J. Kaimaparamban’ as the pen name. I was born on October 1939 in a middle class family of Kerala, the south most state of India. After education I became a schoolmaster. Worked in several Kerala government schools teaching English language in middle school classes and retired in 1995. Now residing at Vayalar, a village north of Cherthala town, which is between Alappuzha (Alleppey) town and Ernakulam (Cochin) city with my wife and two children.

From early childhood I acquired the habit of reading. It grew into the craze of reading all kinds of books, fiction and non-fiction. I could read so many works of the old masters when I was in high school classes. Afterwards I read creations of modern writers. My studies were badly affected by the reading habit. Wrote several books including works for children in Malayalam, my mother tongue. Two novels won awards.

The Ayurvedic Healer

This novel is the story of an Ayurvedic Physician. Ayurveda is, an ancient medical science generated in India. When I thought of writing about an Ayurvedic Physician, I remembered my ancestor, who had converted into Christianity from Brahminhood (An upper division in Hindu religion). Freedom struggle of India, social developments, emergence of new societies etc., are dominating in this novel.

The Azure of Solicitude

The premise of the novel is the story of three families. Kakkathuruthu, one of the villages in which half of the events take place. It was once the dwelling place of all kinds of crows. Then humans came there. The crows behave with intelligence. They can understand the language of people, but cannot speak. People believe that a crow never dies due to old age.