KOCHI:Noted Malayalam writer NS Madhavan will deliver the John Abraham Memorial Lecture on Saturday. He will speak on the ‘ Fascist Thought and its Engagement with Cinema - Leni Riefenstahl to FTII’, at 5 pm, St Teresa’s College, Auditorium.
The lecture is conducted as part of SiGNS 2015, in memory of John Abraham, the guiding spirit behind radical initiatives for people’s cinema. A former IAS officer, Madhavan is a leading writer in contemporary Malayalam literature, whose short stories, novels, as well as articles on football and travel enjoy a wide readership among the Malayali readers. He has published four collections of stories, a novel and one collection of plays. His debut novel Lanthan Batheriyile Luthiniyakal in 2003 was translated as ‘Litanies of the Dutch Battery’ in 2010.
His short story ‘Van Marangal Veezhumbol’ (When Big Trees Fall) titled after the infamous statement by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 following the murder of Indira Gandhi has been made into a Hindi movie, Kaya Taran by Sashi Kumar in 2004.