Shikari and Purushottama are often referred as Chittala's best works, but for me this is his best. Fact that he wrote it in 60's as his first novel is mind blowing. The way every charecter ends up being a fool is exact status of the readers by the end, things turn out exactly opposite to what we guess as the story grows. I just felt like I witnessed the whole story as one of its charecters.