K Parameswaran

A luminous meditation on womanhood, memory, and belonging, 'Alchemy of the Fourth Finger' captures the rhythms of Kerala's cultural and social life through the intimate gaze of a woman. In prose both tender and unflinching, Maya Balakrishnan reflects an era with grace, while Dr. K. Parameswaran's translation preserves its quiet power and lyrical depth - Dr. Shashi Tharoor. The Alchemy of the Fourth Finger is a call to memories. It is life’s gift to life; it is life’s paean to all those things that it neglected, thinking that they are insignificant; it is a call for life to all who have been caught in corners of time and space, with no access to intertwined growth or uninterrupted flow - Bobby Jose Kattikadu