1. ^"Works by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer". New York University. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
2. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2502/stories/20080201501110100.htm |title=Sultan of story: A birth centenary tribute to Vaikom Mohammed Basheer who picked up his tales from life's poetry |first=K. | last=Satchidanandan |journal=Frontline |date=February 2008 |volume= 25 |series= |issue= 2|accessdate=30 May 2018 }}
3. ^{{cite book|title=Basheer fictions|author=M. N. Vijayan|editor=M. N. Vijayan|publisher=Katha|year=1996|page=21}}
4. ^{{cite book|title=Vushappu (Hunger)|author=Vaikom Muhammad Basheer|year=1954|publisher=Current Books|chapter=Foreword|quote=It is years since I have started writing stories. When did I start? I think it was from 1937. I have been living in Ernakulam since then. I was a writer by profession. I wrote a great deal. I would get my writing published in newspapers and journals. No one paid me for it. The stories were published between 1937 and 1941 in Navajeevan, a weekly published in Trivandrum in those days.}}
5. ^{{Cite book |title=Classics of Modern South Asian Literature |author=Rupert Snell, I. M. P. Raeside |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |pages=27, 28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eJjAAAAMAAJ}}