E M S Namboodiripad

Column | How Kerala school textbooks described Russia & China in the late 1950s

January 15, 2024

Column | How Kerala school textbooks described Russia & China in the late 1950s

This was a period when India and China had a very good diplomatic relationship.

November 05, 2022
BJP revives debate: People killed in Punnapra-Vayalar martyrs or Communist pawns?

The debate was based on BJP leader PS Sreedharan Pillai's work, 'Punnapra-Vayalar Samarathinte Kaanappurangal' (The Unseen Dimensions of the Punnapra Vayalar Agitation).
January 24, 2022
S Sasi, son of former Kerala CM EMS Namboodiripad, dies at 67

Sasi was the chief accounts manager of the CPM party organ 'Deshabhimani'. He used to work under the General Manager's office of the newspaper in Thiruvananthapuram.
May 11, 2021
KR Gouri Amma's 2019 interview: 'AKG liked me, Changampuzha proposed'

The veteran communist opens up about her association with T V Thomas, A K Gopalan and Changampuzha Krishna Pillai and her unpublished autobiography.
February 24, 2020
Car-less 'Leader', EMS's biriyani and Chandy's 'U-turn' in Prof M A Oommen's autobiography

Prof Oommen's recently released autobiography, 'Ormappadikal' (Memory's Stairs), has a delightful chapter on legendary Kerala leaders he had come across along the path of his sterling career.
October 18, 2019
Here is why the CPI(M) wants Indian communism to be 100 years old

The Marxist party wants to definitively remove the anti-national tag that had somehow got stuck on it in the early post-Independence period.
August 02, 2019
When a CPM veteran opens up about the party's power struggle

What transpired within the secretive organisation has long been a matter of speculation.