V t bhattathiripad award notification
EMS: In Literary & Cultural Arena
The Marxist
Volume: 14, No. 01-02
Jan-June 1998
EMS AS A LITERARY CRITIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVIST
P. GOVINDA PILLAI
When we ponder over the contribution made by EMS Namboodiripad (1909-1998) to the literary, artistic and cultural life of Kerala, and the intermittent interventions he made in the intellectual and literary controversies in Malayalam during the last seven decades or so, we are reminded of Frederick Engels’ evaluation of the renaissance personalities of Europe: In his celebrated but unfinished work Dialectics of Nature, Engels spoke of them as the "giants in power of thought, passion and character, in universality and learning". After listing and describing a few of them he continues:
"The heroes of that time were not yet in thrall to the division of labour, the restricting effects of which, with its production of one-sideness, we often notice in their successors. But what is especially characteristic of them is that they almost all live and pursue their activities in the midst of contemporary movements, in the practical struggle; they take sides and join in the fight, one by speaking and writing another with sword, many with both. Hence the fullness and force of character that makes them complete men".
If we resort to our ancient Indian usage EMS was a rare combination of the "Gnana Yogin" and "Karma Yogin". Besides being a working class revolutionary, Marxist-Leninist theoretician of eminence, a party-builder he could easily switch over from under-ground to over-ground, from prison to street demonstration, from editorial desk to legislature, from opposition to treasury benches and prove his versatility as an administrator par excellence. It is with all these heavy claims on his routine and energy, that EMS made himself a vibrant and seminal
Full Name of V.T. Bhattathiripad - Vellithiruthi Thazhattu Karutha Patteri Raman Bhattatiripad
Born on - 26 March 1896
Born at - Mezhathur
Father - Thuppan Bhattathiripad
Mother - Sreedevi Andarjanam
- Who Propagated Mixed Caste Marriage in Brahmin Society - V.T. Bhattathiripad
- Yogakshema Sabha was founded on - 1908 (Aluva)
- V.T. Bhattathiripad was one of the prominent members in - Yogakshema Sabha
- The Slogan of Yogakshema Sabha - Make Namboothiries into Human beings
- First President of Yogakshema Sabha - Deshamangalathu Sankaran Namboothiripad
- The mouthpiece of Yogakshema Sabha - Mangalodhayam
- Founder of Namboothiri Yuvajana Sangam (1919) - V.T. Bhattathiripad
- The mouthpiece of Namboothiri Yuvajana Sangam - Unni Namboothiri
- The drama "Adukkalayil Ninnum Arangathekku" was written by - V.T. Bhattathiripad
- The drama "Adukkalayil Ninnum Arangathekku" was first performed at - Edakkunni (1929)
- The leader of Yajana Yathra - V.T. Bhattathiripad
- Yajana Yathra was conducted from - Thrissur to Chandragiripuzha (Kasaragod), Aim - Education of the Poor Children
- Yajana Yathra was conducted on - 26 April 1931
- Autobiography of V.T. Bhattathiripad - Kannerum Kinavum
- Major Works of V.T. Bhattathiripad
b) Adukkalayil Ninnum Arangathekku
c) Rajani Rangam
d) Karmavipakam
e) Vedivettom
f) Karinchantha
g) Pozhinjapookal
h) Chakravalangal
i) Satyamennathu Ivida Manushyanakunnu
- Winner of V.T. Memorial Award 20ll - Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiripad
- Winner of V.T. Memorial Award 2012 - Dr. K.Srikumar
- The winner of K
- V.T. Bhattathiripad. V.T. Bhattathiripad, well-known
- Vindhuja got best Parliamentarian award
Noted Malayalam poet Akkitham wins 55th Jnanpith award, Padma Shri awardee says he's humbled by the honour
"The Jnanpith Selection Board has announced the recipient of the 55th Jnanpith Award for the year 2019 today in a meeting. It went to Shri Akkitham, eminent Indian poet writing in Malayalam," the board said in statement.
On receiving the honour, the philosopher-poet said on Friday that he was happy and humbled by the honour.
Born in 1926, Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, popularly known as Akkithamis one of the most revered names in Malayalam poetry. The 93-year-old poet told reporters at his home in Palakkad that many, including Edassery and V T Bhattathiripad were great poets. There were many contemporaries too who were deserving, he said.
"Maybe I am being blessed with the honour as I have had a longer life", he said.
Akkitham said his wife Sreedevi was the pillar of strength of his poems and was saddened that she was not with him at this time.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is on a tour of Japan and South Korea, in a message said the award was a big recognition to the Malayalam language and literature.
"He played a key role, along with Communist stalwart E M S Namboothiripad and V T Battathiripad for the reformation in the Namboothiri community", Vijayan said.
G Sankara Kurup, S K Pottakkad, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, M T Vasudevan Nair and O N V Kurup are the other writers who had earlier brought the coveted laurel to the state.
A true Gandhian, social reformer, journalist and an iconic example of simplicity, Akkitham has been a man who wears many hats with aplomb, besides his gifted literary life.
Born in a traditional Namboothiri (Brahmin) family in Kumaranallur in Palakkad district, Akkitham had trumpeted his arrival to Malayalam literature at the age of eight by
VT's play gets television adaptation
Doordarshan will start airing the series from January 5, 2018."Though the play is almost 90 years old (wrote in 1929), it is still socially relevant," said V K Kishor Kumar, floor manager with Doordarshan Kendra, Thrissur, who directed the TV adaptation.
"When I heard that a team of performers associated with Ambili Kalasamithi, which took the initiative to bring the play back to stage over 35 years ago, is still actively involved in performing it, I felt that it should be made into a television series, departing from all conventions," he said.
Revolving around the life of Madhavan, a student of Vedic studies, the communal prejudices the play exposed were still prevalent in the society, he opined.
The production has not much deviated from the original, except for some changes in costumes as women in those times (in which the play is set) didn't cover their upper body, said Kishor, who shot to fame through N N Pillai's play 'Good Night' 20 years ago.
According to A Damodaran, who acted in the play when it was staged in 1982, though the social scenario portrayed in the play had changed considerably, what made it relevant was that it propagated freedom of Namboothiri women who were deprived of their rights and even humanly existence.
"VT's was the beginning of the progressive theatre movement in Kerala, and he had a social mission too. Despite being a propagandist play, it has literary and theatrical merits.