Lakshmikutty Amma Kanjoli

Lakshmikutty Amma wife of Chandu Menon was a cultured lady with literary tastes and was good in music. With her adoring affection for Chandu Menon and felicitous understanding of his tastes and talents, she was a fit and inspiring spouse for him. Lovers of Malayalam literature will remember her as the * personage *, or * friend \ or * persecutor *, whose pleasing but irresistible persuasions made her husband write his delectable novel Indulekha. In a letter to Dumergue who translated that novel into English, Chandu Menon, explaining the reasons for his writing the book, said* First my wife's oft-expressed desire to read in her own language a novel written after the English fashion V.