Born in Koilandy, a village in 1950 and grew up in the port city of Calicut (Kozhikode), the city of Zamorian dynasty (Samudiri maharajas) and the Persian-Arab Sea trading. After college he went to Abu Dhabi in 1975, where I worked in Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), largest sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East 35 years. It was there in Abu Dhabi that I continued my devotion in creativity as a writer, but later abandoned my ambition to become a literary translator and succeeded in that field by introducing Iranian, Arabian, Indonesian master writers with their outstanding novels and short stories into my mother tongue, Malayalam

I built vast contacts with the renowned writers, thinkers and scholars and also cultural institutions around the Middle-eastern and Northern African countries, both native as well as exiled personalities.

I am Authorized Literary Translator of: Sudan: Laila Aboulela; Egypt: Dr.Nawal El Saadawi, Salwa Bakr, Sahar Tawfik, Miral El Tahawy, Hala El Badry, Somaya Ramadan, Sahar El Mougy; Lebanon: Venus Khoury-Ghata, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Najwa Al Barakat, Emily Nasrallah, Hadia Sa'id; Iraq: Salima Saleh; Aliya Al Mamdouh; Mahmoud Saeed; Palestine: Liana Al Badr, Laila Halabi; Syria: Ghada Al Samman, Nadia Ghazzi, Ghalia Qabbani; Jordan: Leila Al-Athrash; UAE: Dhabiya Khamis, Asma Al Katbi, Mariam Al Saedi; Arab-American: Diana Abu-Jaber; Algeria: Yasmina Khadra; Saudi Arabia: Dr.Umaima Khamis; Libya: Najwa Shatwan; Iran: Shahrnush Parsipur, Dr.Simin Daneswer, Sadegh Hedayat; Indonesia: Pramoedya Ananta Toer; UK:Julia Casterton.