Author

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.

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. Afterwards I read creations of modern writers. Because of the reading habit, my studies were badly affected by it. Wrote several books including works for children in Malayalam, my mother tongue. Two novels received awards.

Before retirement I have had an idea of writing novels in English. I felt the people around me being characters of unattempted works.

After retirement I started writing my first novel in English, ‘The Azure of Solicitude’. By 1998 I could complete the work and tried making it perfect.

As my soul had been filling with new outlines I could not sit as an idol. I began moving my pen for the creation of another novel. ‘The Hospices’ is reflecting the time between 1919 and 1956, in which the occurrences of the end of the First World War, Second World War and the formation of Kerala State, come. The main places of my novel are Travancore and Cochin, where the struggles against the rulers (The British) do not come direct but only reverberates through some characters. The story is based on the life of an Ayurvedic Physician, who lived for treating all kinds of diseased persons without caring their creed, caste, community and religion. By birth he was a Brahmin. In Cochin country, the prominent person of a Brahmin family was the eldest brother and all the traditional wealth went under his control. He only had the right of marrying girls from his own community. His younger brothers could have rapportship with Nair ladies. Despite the Kings ruled those two countries, it was difficult for the common people to cross over the eyes of the landlords for submitting their sorrows before the Kings. The condition of the lower castes and the poor were more pitiable. State Congress and such parties come forward for exhortating the uneducated people. In several places riots were broken out. As the result of the agitations led by Indian National Congress in the British ruling Indian provinces India got freedom in 1947. Malayalam speaking people who lived in Malabar, Cochin and Travancore got United Kerala in 1956 as they had desired. By the help of one of his distant physician uncle, he could undergo the lengthy training in Ayurvedic medical treatment. Despite he had practiced celibacy from his early stage of youth; he was trapped in love affair with a Christian girl whom he happened to treat a long period due to the severe condition of the disease. The relationship turns his life upside down.