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In this study describe about the life and works of Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai. It introduces Malayalam literature especially the growth of novel as a front runner among other genres. It takes Sivasankara Pillai’s novel Chemmeen as a critical device to analyze how the author’s original intention toportray the economic status of fisher folk have turned into a mere romantic writing. The writers from Indian regional writings also used sea as a metaphor due to the influence of the west. Such as, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’sChemmeen, the novel set in Kerala costal area, based on the myth that if the fisherman on the fishing, the wife should maintain infidelity or else Kadalamma will ruin the shore. Pareekutty and Karuthamma rejoin at the end of the s novel and Palani died in the whirlpool while fishing and finally this novel ends as romance. The inter-religious love story of Pareekutty and Karuthamma tightens the struggle and makes more tension. Chemmeen (1956) is the novel set in the sea shore huts on Ambalapuzha and Thirukunnapuzha. Fisherman`s day to day life and struggle, eternal fate, love, poverty, customs, taboos, rituals, culture, tradition, the women’s situation in the coastal areas and their aspirations, are mellifluously portrayed by Thakazhi.

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