THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two biographies written by late Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai are about to see a major re-release. The two books, namely Karl Marx and Mohandas Gandhi will see a re-release on Wednesday.
Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai, who was a political activist as well as a journalist, has been credited with writing the first book on Journalism in Malayalam. In 1912, Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai wrote the biography of Karl Marx. This was Marx’s first biography in any Indian language. Later, he came up with ‘Mohandas Gandhi’, a biography on Mahatma Gandhi. While the biography on Marx has been re-printed five times in the later years, the one on Mahatma had been done so only once.
Vinod Sen, proprietor, Swadeshabhimani Publications, says, “The book has been printed in such a way to assemble both the works, back to back.” The publications will be distributing the book.
The book release will be held on Wednesday at 4 pm at Athani Maidanam, Vanchiyoor.
Poet Sugathakumari will inaugurate the event and hand over a copy of the book to M A Baby MLA. Dean Kuriakose, Youth Congress state president, will preside over the event and the keynote address would be given by writer S V Venugopan Nair.
Ajayan Panayara, literary critic, will introduce the book to the gathering. Dr Bettymol Mathew, literary critic, Dr Nedumudi Hari Kumar, KPCC Vichar Vibhag chairman, Professor V N Murali, Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham(PUKASA) state general secretary, P K Venugopal, chairman, TRIDA, K P Jayachandran, Trivandrum Bar Association president and poet Uma Trideep will also attend the event.