Khasaakk Palakkad, Kerala, India

You are entering into the mythical land of Khasaakk Thasaraakk in the village panchayath of Kotump ,near the town of Palakkad in Kerala, India wherein once said to have lived most of the characters of the KHASAAKKINTE ITHIHAASAM, masterpiece among the Malayalam novels of Late Shree. O.V.Vijayan. Here we meet the villagers who can remember the legendary writer and the places depicted in the novel. Khasakkinte Ithihasam is a Malayalam novel written by the Indian writer O. V. Vijayan. First published in 1969 and generally referred to as Khasak in literary circles, the novel has been reprinted more than fifty times, making it one of the most best-selling novels in South Asia.Khasakkinte Itihasam has been translated into French, German and English. Khasakkinte Itihasam was inspired by Vijayan's stay at a village called Thasarak near Palakkad for a year. His sister O.V. Shanta was appointed as the teacher of a single-teacher school in the village. Most of the characters in the novel were modelled after real-life characters whom Vijayan encountered in Thasarak. In an afterword to the English translation of the novel Vijayan wrote.