Look and Listen

Biography

My real name is John Joseph and assumed ‘Joy J. Kaimaparamban’ as the pen name. I was born on October 1939 in a middle class family of Kerala, the south most state of India. After education I became a schoolmaster. Worked in several Kerala government schools teaching English language in middle school classes and retired in 1995. Now residing at Vayalar, a beautiful lakeside village in Alappuzha (Alleppey) district with my wife and two children. Wrote several books including works for children in Malayalam, my mother tongue. Two novels won awards. The Azure of Solicitude is my first novel in English. My second novel 'The Ayurvedic Healer' has released on June 2010. This is the story of an Ayurvedic Physician. Ayurveda is an ancient medical science generated in India. My third book, 'The King Cobra and the Snake Charmer and other Short Stories', which is a collection of 30 short stories will be releasing by the Spring of 2012.

Inspiration

From early childhood I acquired the habit of reading. It grew into the craze of reading all kinds of books, fiction and non-fiction. I could read so many works of the old masters when I was in high school classes. Afterward I read creations of modern writers. Because of the reading habit, my studies were badly affected by it.