^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award" (in Malayalam).Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. ^ "AIR to broadcast plays based on novels".^ " 'Raamanam:' a re-depiction of Kunhabdulla's famous novel".Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. ^ a b "Sahitya Puraskar for Nalimela Bhaskar"."Both life and literature were unconventional for Malayalam writer Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940-2017)". Smaraka Silalu (స్మారక శిలలు) ( Telugu, Nalimela Bhaskar, Sahitya Akademi, 2010).Meesan Karkal (மீஸான் கற்கள்) ( Tamil, Kulachal M.Yusaf, Kalachuvadu Pathipagam, 2004).Memorial Stones (English, Elzy Tharamangalam, Sahitya Akademi, 2003).Pattalam Ibrayi - the caretaker of Arakkal family after Thangal's demise.Khan Bahadur Pookkoya Thangal - a feudal lord.Thangal's daughter Pookunjeebi is sacrificed at the altar of wealth his adopted son Kunjali burning for justice seems to place his trust on revolution as the only remedy for the ills that afflict society. The steward of the house grows into a tyrant. The empire built by this man crumbles as he is killed by one of the young men whose wives he has ravished. Thangal stands head and shoulders above every other character with his unbounded generosity and insatiable lust. Every character reflects some aspect of the social set up, at the same time lives as a person of individuality. The mosque and its cemetery weave a background of traditions and legends for the tale.
It is the story of a feudal lord Khan Bahadur Pookkoya Thangal of the rich Arakkal family who could build a world of his own in his village. Smarakasilakal is set in a predominantly Muslim North Malabar village. Most of the characters in this novel were real-life people he knew from his hometown. The novel was conceived on a large canvas and developed from the images he had formed of his hometown and its people as a child in pre-independent Malabar. In his autobiography Nashtajathakam, Kunjabdulla recalls that the seeds of Smarakasilakal were sown at a screening of Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali in Aligarh.
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