 Critic E. P. Rajagopalan and post-modern poet A. C. Sreehari in their study point out that Manoj follows a rare technique of storytelling in poetry.For this book, Manoj won the S. B. T. Poetry Award in 2005.In October 2005, he published a fiction poem named "Coma" in Bhashaposhini, which was later published as an independent book in 2006.