Pavanan, the Glossary
Puthan Veetil Narayanan Nair, fondly called and popularly known by his pen name Pavanan (പവനൻ) who was born on 26 October 1925 and died on 22 June 2006, was a well-known rationalist, literary critic and left wing political activist from Kerala, India.[1]
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30 relations: Chennai, Communist Party of India, Deshabhimani, English language, India, Indian Army, Jayakeralam, Kasaragod district, Kerala, Kerala Kalamandalam, Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi, Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham, Left-wing politics, Literature, M. C. Joseph, M. K. Sanu, Malayala Manorama, Malayalam, Mathrubhumi, Navayugom, Nileshwaram, Parkinson's disease, Pen name, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Rationalism, Thalassery, The Hindu, The Times of India.
- Indian materialists
Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India.
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Deshabhimani
Deshabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M).
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.
Jayakeralam
Jayakeralam was a Malayalam–language weekly literary magazine published from Madras (now Chennai).
Kasaragod district
Kasaragod (and Tulu:Kasrod, kannada: kasaragoodu) is one of the 14 districts in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
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Kerala
Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.
Kerala Kalamandalam
Kerala Kalamandalam, a deemed-to-be-University of Art and Culture by the Government of India, is a major centre for learning Indian performing arts, especially those that developed in the country's southern states, with special emphasis on those from Kerala.
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi
The Kerala Sahitya Akademi or Academy for Malayalam Literature is an autonomous body established to promote the Malayalam language and literature.
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1958, by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy), to Malayalam writers for their outstanding books of literary merit.
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Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi is located in Thrissur city, of Kerala, in India.
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Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham
Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham (KYS) is a rationalist organization based in Kerala, India.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
M. C. Joseph
Mookencheril Cherian Joseph, popularly known as Yukthivadi M. C. Joseph (യുക്തിവാദി എം സി ജോസഫ്), was an eminent rationalist from Kerala, India. Pavanan and M. C. Joseph are Indian atheists and Indian materialists.
M. K. Sanu
M. Pavanan and M. K. Sanu are writers from Kerala.
Malayala Manorama
Malayala Manorama is a morning newspaper in Malayalam published from Kottayam, Kerala, India by the Malayala Manorama Company Limited.
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Malayalam
Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.
Mathrubhumi
Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam newspaper that is published from Kerala, India.
Navayugom
Navayugom is a Malayalam fortnightly published in Kerala, India.
Nileshwaram
Nileshwaram or Nileshwar or Neeleswaram is a municipality and a major town in Kasaragod District, state of Kerala, India.
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.
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Pen name
A pen name is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Rationalism
In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
Thalassery
Thalassery, formerly Tellicherry, is a municipality and commercial city on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahe, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karnataka).
The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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See also
Indian materialists
- Abraham T. Kovoor
- Ajita Kesakambali
- Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
- E. A. Jabbar
- Joseph Edamaruku
- M. C. Joseph
- M. K. Kumaran
- P. T. Bhaskara Panicker
- Pavanan
- Payasi
- Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
- Ravipudi Venkatadri
- Sahodaran Ayyappan
- Thirunalloor Karunakaran