Joy J. Kaimaparamban is the author of The Ayurvedic Healer, a novel published by Copperhill Media. For further information log on to his blog at http://www.kaimaparamban.com.

I started writing a novel about a seashore village and it has not been completed yet.  No title has been put for it.  I am in search of a title that will suit the creation even while I am writing it.  I know a title will come to my mind with the completion of this work.

The novel describes the lives of the fishermen living in an Arabian seashore village. The story is a subjective one. Reality and fantasy are mixed. The events take place before India received freedom from the British.

Several years ago I had worked in a school, which was in a village on a seashore. Almost all the students of the school were the children of fishermen.

I stayed in a house of a relative of a teacher, who worked in the same school.

In the evenings of the summer I used to go to the seashore. Being a teacher I could mingle with the parents of my students. I could grasp many things from them. I was eagerly going through the lives of fishermen. Rich people were very rare and their children did not come to the seashore school. The parents sent their children to other schools. They believed that the standard of the study was low in the seashore school.

Some teachers who came from outside viewed the people and their children with contempt.

In fact the seashore dwellers are straightforward and innocent. If you love them they would love you, unless you cannot get away from the flames of their rage.

I was greatly attracted to the people of the seashore. Despite the fact that I went to government service, I frequently used to remember the place and the people. Their lifestyle and their strange beliefs haunted me.

Then after several years I began to write the novel based on an Arabian seashore village.

Still I am in the continuation of the novel.  I am in the agony of writing the work. I do not know when I fall into ecstasy.