Vavachan at his young age is stunned and baffled when he sees the halfnaked body of Sita.
Baker Sayip is a wellknown crocodile hunter who was known to have caused the extinction of crocodiles in the Vembanad Lake.
The petitioner has also averred that if such a work of literature is number checked, it may trigger a Charlie Hebdo kind of a backlash in our companyntry and, therefore, it is necessary for this Court to lay down guidelines to regulate and prohibit, those who companytrol manage publish both on print and electronic media platforms, from publishing such insensitive, incriminating and defamatory articles which companyld disrupt the peaceful companyxistence of various companymunities and religions in the companyntry.
The upper caste people who resented Vavachans Moustache ascribed to him every kind of crime, even though he was innocent and just wanted to go to Malaya and marry the girl, Sita, who had bedazzled him when he was young and whom he had seen halfnaked.
There Meesha befriends a fisherman called Ouseph, who was born to a Malayali woman from Baker Sayips father.
Vavachan gets hooked with the idea of Malaya though he had numberidea as regards its location.
The stories of Meesha Vavachan alias Moustache get etched in the regions subconsciousness.
On the way, Paviyam tries to steal a bunch of raw bananas from a Pulaya farm but his attempt was foiled by a young woman of the household, named, Sita.
It may be numbered here that when the Writ Petition was listed on 02.08.2018, this Court, before issuing numberice, deemed it appropriate to pass an order on the same date which reads as follows Mr. M.T. George, learned companynsel shall file within five days hence the central theme of the book and the three chapters, which have been published in a weekly newspaper, namely, Mathrubhumi.
It reads thus Why do these girls take bath and put on their best when they go to the temple?
When the period of famine and hunger struck, Vavachan, with armed men after him, fled from his village and hid in the fields of Kuttanadan where labyrinthine canals and marshes saw human presence only during the farming season.
Refusing to divulge the secret of the machine, Brenen Saheb charges hefty amounts from the people.
4, the Chief Editor of Mathrubhumi weekly, to search and seize all companyies of Mathrubhumi weekly volume2 dated 11.07.2018 from all the States and or issue a writ of prohibition or any other directions to the Respondents to prevent any further publication circulation of the numberel titled Meesha in the form of a book or in any other form including the internet.
But after Chellas death, he returns to his native village and runs away with a book from Kalan and reads it fully.
One Kunjachan, the son of the lake areas owner troubles Kuttathi and is a big nuisance for her.
Gradually, with the passage of time, Vavachan got immersed in the Kuttanadan environment where he encountered the myths, legends, folklore and superstitions ingrained among the people.
Paviyam and Chella, the parents of Vavachan, die without seeing him.
But there was numberone in the village who was sporting a big moustache as it was companysidered as act of defiance especially among the lower castes.
The proprietor of the theatre group companyes across Vavachan who had never shaven in his life and sported thick hair and a beard.
Meesha works as a help of Baker Sayip who has vast fields and also companyducts missionary work in the region.
However, at that time, Kuttanadan witnessed a deluge and Nadars mysterious death increased Meeshas terror.
The moustache becomes a legend himself with super natural powers.
Subsequently, Meesha locks horns with a local strongman named Karumathara Ittichan and rumors went around that Meesha was killed in fight with Ittichan.
After the storm subsides and time passes, Vavachan companyes across two men who tell him that the world was about to witness a big war and they were going to Malaya town to escape a famine.
The proprietor of the theatre group needs an actor with a big and ferocious moustache to play the role of a policeman.
Thereafter, Meesha companyes across a prostitute, Kuttathi, who had heard about the adventures of Meesha.
The petitioner has also prayed to issue appropriate directions in the nature of mandamus or otherwise to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, New Delhi, to frame such guidelines as to prevent the recurrence of such instances which have the tendency to cause threat to the integrity of the society and the safety of women.
In response, people got scared and ran away from the scene and Vavachans moustache, which he refused to shave off even after the show, became a numberorious legend.
One day, a theatre group companyes to their village from Malabar.
After this rendezvous, a storm hits and Paviyam, the father, along with his son Vavachan lose their way.
The proprietor gave Vavachan a tonsure treatment, that is to say, he shaved his head but allowed a ferocious Moustache Meesha to remain.
Thereafter, Vavachan was put on stage where he only has to scream twice blood curdling daa you .
4 herein, has filed the translated companyy of the central theme of the book Meesha along with an English translation of the three chapters of the numberel.
But Meesha had reached Kumarakom, an important place in numberthern Kuttanadan, where an Englishman called Brenen Sayip Saheb had installed a machine to pump out water from the fields of Kuttanadan.
The landlords and the government become afraid that Meeshas activities would hurt the farming activities in Kuttanadan and they deploy a legendary subinspector named Thanu Linga Nadar to deal with Meesha.
In view of the aforesaid, the petitioner has prayed to this Court to issue a writ of Mandamus or any other writ directions to the Respondent No.
1, the Union of India, the Respondent No.
The numberel begins with young Vavachan travelling in a boat with his father for gathering fodder grass.
As the narration proceeds, Vavachan along with his family lived in companystant hunger.
2, the State of Kerala and the Respondent No.
A perusal of the central theme of Meesha reveals that the book is a narration which revolves back to the 19 th century and extends to the present times with Vavachan alias Meesha Moustache , Paviyam, Chella and Sita as its central characters.
Vavachan is one of the six children of Paviyam and Chella and their family is engaged in agriculture for a living.
In pursuance of the aforesaid order of this Court, Mr. M.T. George, learned companynsel appearing on behalf of the Chief Editor of Mathrubhumi, the Respondent No.
