Appreciating the show, a passerby commented that the heavily damaged bus station road and premises were more frightening than the drawings ... Now, the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation ...

Though he was a versatile artist — he sculpted, and was a State Film Award winner for art direction, too — he was primarily known, especially in his native Kerala, for his line art ...

VKN had called him the 'paramasivan of drawings'. Namboothiri's line sketches were so powerful that they brought to life the simplicity of Kerala's rustic life. As a sculptor, he worked on ...