Rosy Thomas’s best-known work, He, My Beloved CJ, is a vivid and heartfelt memoir of her husband, CJ Thomas, the iconic Malayalam playwright and literary critic. Their love story is the stuff that legends are made of, as is the memoir. Thomas writes about their life together with verve and subtlety, weaving memories, reflections, and anecdotes together, to create an account that is as much about the cultural and political churning in mid-20th century Kerala, as it is that of an unusual and unconventional marriage. Yet, her narrative resolutely refuses to either romanticise love or sentimentalise the marital relationship itself.