Assorted Essays By Shemeela Sasikumar

This book is just a collection of essays I had written on different topics connected with my personal life. Besides, I had also written on tours to some local places in Kerala and a return journey that my husband and I took to Singapore. I had always entertained sweet memories of this child hood home which I had left after my Senior Cambridge ‘O’ level examinations in 1972 at my father’s insistence that the whole family should return to India. I had continued on with my studies , having completed M.Tech in Chemical Engineering and procuring a career as a Lecturer and progressing to the status of Professor in the government engineering colleges of Kerala. My siblings too fared well in their studies and got reliable jobs , my sister in the Kerala Treasury Department and my two brothers in Muscat and Dubai respectively. After retirement, I decided to write English essays as reading and writing in that language had been my passion in my schooldays and pre- degree college days. Hence my return to my passion after retirement. An essay and some letters on relevant topics in the Hindu were published . However after that , a sudden stop in publication although I continued to write essays on matter I found interesting. Hence I decided to pay to have my essays published online by such printing publications like the Notion Press and BUUKs. Not so successful but still satisfying my inner soul. The two books that came out of my prolific urge were’ Reminiscences’ and ‘ A Critique of Bhima- Lone Warrior ‘ an English translation of M.T.Vasudevan’s Malayalam novel ‘ Randamoorai , a sympathetic presentation of Bhima, the second son of the Pandava brothers in the great Hindu epic ‘Mahabharata’. The two books were released in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Now , after presenting umpteen essays, reviews of both novels and films which enthralled me , and places visited , in Facebook (Shemeela’s Page and Newsfeed) I decided to come out with this third publication by Clever Fox Publishers on seventeen essays which I hope to entrance readers.