We are proud to share our latest feature, a short story by Madhu S Nair who is also a prolific writer in Malayalam, a language of Kerala State in India. He has  published more than 25 books, mostly travelogues, a dozen stories and two novels. He lives in Trivandrum, India.   

 

 

 

 

 

Damodaran peeled off disposable socks from his feet and started massaging them. Poor feet, he thought: pumped blood from the heart reached there last, narrowing down to a very thin stream. The feet are destined to bear the full body weight all through but they are hardly credited as an attractive body part. Damodaran, for a moment, thought himself to be just a foot in society, for his earnest helping mind was never recognized. But he harbored malice to none. 

Read the rest of “The Suspect” here.