Spandamapinikale Nandi

By C. Radhakrishnan

Spandamapinikale Nandi is based on a scientist’s impatience with all existing social arrangements, and his desperate search for remedies, which takes him beyond rational vistas. Unfortunately, the scientist is not in control over his inventions. He has to remain at the mercy of the morons who control the fate of millions in society. The discussions in the novel return to the universally shared fear that the rulers who have grown accustomed to exploiting the destructive potential of modern technology might one day be tempted to press the last button towards nuclear annihilation. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.

About the Author:
C. Radhakrishnan is one of the foremost living fictionists of Malayalam. He has published more than forty novels. His mode of narration has been conventional realism. A few of his novels including the popular Ottayadipadakal (1990) have been turned into films. Radhakrishnan has also authored physics articles and a book on physics titled The Secret Behind the Universe that was published in July 2016.