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| Item | Information | |------|--------------| | | തുണ്ടു കഥ – Thundu Kadha | | English translation of title | “The Story of the Thorn” (or “The Tale of Thundu”) | | Form | Short story / folk narrative (often printed in literary magazines and anthologies) | | First Publication | 1978, Kairali literary magazine (Kerala) | | Collected in | Kadhakalude Kshema (1979) – an anthology of contemporary Malayalam short stories; later re‑issued in Malayala Kathakal (1995). | | Author | M. K. Mohan (1946‑2012), a noted Malayalam writer of the post‑modernist wave, also a schoolteacher and later a professor of Malayalam literature at Calicut University. | | Language | Malayalam (original); translated into English (1992, Stories from Kerala ), Hindi (1999, Kerala ki Kahaniyan ) and Tamil (2004). |

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