MP has very vivid memories of his early life as a quadriplegic and about how he learnt to accept the disability, pick up the threads again and start living his second innings. His journey is one of immense courage, and has been described in his own words in an article he wrote titled 'Airborne to Chairborne' which, incidentally, kick-started his writing career.

In the piece he writes how he conquered the bouts of depression and began the second phase of his life in the paraplegic home, thousands of miles away from his native Chirayinkil in Kerala. He slowly and painstakingly taught himself to write by holding a pen in his mouth and finally learnt to use the keyboard of a PC with his mouth.

So inspirational was this article that it found place in the English textbook of schools affiliated to the Maharashtra board and an abridged version has recently been included in the English Reader in Kerala. This has won him many young fans and friends.

I leave you with a few lines from MP's piece 'Airborne to Chairborne:'

'Believe it or not, every cloud has a silver lining. To surmount even seemingly insuperable barriers one has to shun the thought of disability and muster the remnant faculties and canalise ones energies purposefully and whole-heartedly it isn't just physical ability and intelligence but an insatiable appetite for success and unstinted will power that would texture the warp and woof of fabric called human destiny. Greater the difficulty, sweeter the victory.'