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"The British Council Library helped me discover beautiful English writers. Then came Tales from a Vending Machine, which he wanted to be a commercial success. For instance, The Blind Ladys Descendants gives a detailed account of circumcision prevalent in the community.In between, he fell ill, returned to his homeland and later joined the advertising industry. But, he kept writing.

As he feared they might reject this book seeing his name, he assumed the name Hasina Mansoor, the lead character of the book. People were actually confused by my behaviour, especially my parents," adds the writer.. It was not the era of television and he had no friends. Even now, though his heart desires to revisit his school days, he wants to do it unnoticed, preferably on a holiday. "The idea of Tales from a Vending Machine struck me while I was sitting at Cochin Airport.All this time, his writing had been on the go. When I go to aplace, I might visit one spot — it could be a path I fell in love with — for 10 days, and I come back with one good sentence," concludes the author, who is currently working on a book set against the backdrop of Hyderabad.All the while, he was writing. I remember her wearing a scarf. His reading expanded as he began frequenting the British Council Library (now closed) in Thiruvananthapuram. The home library, where he got introduced to classics, became his world.After school, though he tried to study at a college, the place was too crowded for him. Interestingly, Anees’ books let readers know more about the Muslim community. The whole day she sees people coming and going, and I decided to write about it.

I saw a girl sitting behind a tea vending machine, something you would see only here. Within an hour, he asked for the whole book and then the contact number. "I began with short stories. "I am a different kind of traveller. "I don’t want something controversial to sell the book. I went to Hyderabad and there, I started working on The Vicks Mango Tree, set in Mangobaag," he adds. In less than five minutes, he asked for the first 30 pages.According to him, going home for lunch was his way of staying away from school. Going there for books and coming back was like an excursion for me. "Being in school for eight hours at a stretch was unimaginative for me!" says Anees.

Then, his world became the railway tracks and the dirt road to his home, elements one can find in The Blind Lady’s Descendants. "I stayed there for hardly six months," Anees recalls. In a place like Kerala, you don’t see poverty.Ask him how his travels within India and abroad have changed his perspectives and contributed to his writing, he says, "I think they hardened me, made me mature.Anees feels that the journeys helped him write without inhibitions. New books hit the market and publishers who once rejected him came asking for more. When they got rejected, I started novels thinking short stories were not my cup of tea.

That made me more courageous," he says. All this happened on a Friday and things were set by Monday," says Anees, who doesn’t like the idea of attending launches or award-ceremonies. Then, I revealed my identity. His books have won awards. I could starve. The book was completed in six months," says the writer who by that time, had sent his earlier works to almost all literary agents and publishing houses. "I googled and found a new agent, and sent him a mail in Hasina’s name. But if I feel that something needs to be written, I write it," he Wholesale 48 Cavity-Preform Mould says. I could see poverty and meet people