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| author = [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
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'''''Manju''''' (''Mist'') is a novel by [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] published in 1964. With few conversations and minimal characters the novel narrates the story of a school teacher. The novel is set in the mountains and valleys of [[Nainital]] where Vimala Devi, a teacher in a boarding school, waits in hope for the winter of her discontent to vanish. Despite having a family comprising father, mother, sister and brother, Vimala is kept aloof from them. She hates the company of her family and enjoys solitude. The eco-feminist theme of patriarchal domination and exploitation gains more prominence in ''Manju'', MT's only novel with a female protagonist. The novel stands apart as set in a milieu different from the usual one, the Valluvanadan village.

The plot of the novel is allegedly similar to a [[Hindi language|Hindi]] story ''Parinde'' (Birds, 1956), by [[Nirmal Verma]].<ref name=Test1>{{cite journal| title= The two literary stars of Malayalam stand accused of plagiarism. Or, is envy is the motive? |work=[[India Today]] |author= M. G. Radhakrishnan |volume=26 |page=109 |date=10 September 2001 |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/literary-stars-of-malayalam-m-t-vasudevan-nair-paul-zacharia-stand-accused-of-plagiarism/1/231156.html |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> However both MT and Verma have rejected these claims. MT said in an interview with ''[[India Today]]'', "I don't remember having ever read Verma's story although we are very close friends. I wrote ''Manju'' immediately after I returned from a visit to Nainital."<ref name=Test1/> Verma himself says it is ridiculous to accuse an author of MT's calibre of plagiarism. "My story's English translation was published only five or six years ago by HarperCollins. I don't think MT reads Hindi works in original. So there is no substance to the charge that MT had read it before he wrote his novel," says Verma.<ref name=Test1/>

MT also directed and scripted a [[Manju (film)|film with the same name]] based on the novel in 1983. The film stars Sangeeta Naik, Sankar Mohan, Sankara Pillai and Nanditha Bose.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/mtvasu.html |title=M. T. Vasudevan Nair: Manju |publisher=Cinemaofmalayalam.net |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019083818/http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/mtvasu.html |archive-date=19 October 2013 }}</ref> The novel also had a [[Hindi-language]] film adaptation titled ''Sharad Sandhya''. This film however went completely unnoticed.

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{{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}

[[Category:1964 novels]]
[[Category:Malayalam novels]]
[[Category:Indian novels adapted into films]]
[[Category:Novels set in India]]
[[Category:Novels set in Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:Novels set in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Novels by M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
[[Category:DC Books books]]
[[Category:1964 Indian novels]]

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