Puthussery Ramachandran

Puthussery Ramachandran(1928) is an eminent Indian poet of the Malayalam language. He is a scholar of Dravidian liguistics and has been a professor of Malayalam for more than three decades.[1]

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Biography

Puthussery Ramachandran (P.Ramachandran pillai) was born to Pokkatt Damodaran pillai and Puthussery Janaki Amma, on September 23, 1928 at Vallikunnam, in Alappuzha district in Kerala. He participated in the Indian freedom struggle during his school days and later joined the Communist Party of India. After schooling in his native village he joined S N College, Kollam for intermediate studies, where he actively took part in the activities of the AISF the students' wing of the Communist Party. He took his Honours in Malayalam language and literature from University College, Trivandrum and Masters from Travancore university (now University of Kerala) from where he took his PhD in Linguistics. First he worked as lecturer at S.N.College and later as professor at Department of Malayalam of University of Kerala. He was the chief organiser of the first World Malayalam Conference held in Trivandrum in 1977. He is considered one of the major poets of the Pink Decade in Malayalam poetry.[2]

Works

Poems

Gameenagayakan

Avunnathra uchathil

Shakthipooja

Akalumthorum

puthiya kollanum Puthiyoralayum

Ee Veettil Arumille

Essays

Kannassa Ramayanam-Commentary

Pracheena Malayalam

Panineeya Vimarsam

Keralacharithrathile Adisthanarekhakal

References

  1. ^ Sahithyakara Directory ; Kerala Sahithya Academy,Thrissur
  2. ^ Akhilavijnanakosam; D.C.Books; Kottayam

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