| Names |
Swadeshabhimani K. RAMAKRISHNA PILLAI |
| Date of Birth |
May 25, 1878 |
| Date of
Death |
March 28, 1916
– Travancore, Kerala, India. |
|
Identity |
A writer, journalist, Newspaper editor, and political
activist in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore (Kerala,
India). |
|
Works |
- He wrote Vrithantha Pathra Pravarthanam
(1912), the first book on journalism in the
Malayalam language.
- He also wrote the biography of Karl Marx (1912) in
Malayalam, which was the first in any Indian language.
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| General |
- He was the editor of the newspaper
Swadeshabhimani (The Patriot) and hence known by
this name.
- He was a newspaper enthusiast right
from his childhood.
- After his basic education, he took up the job of an
editor of a malayalam newspaper, Kerala Darpanam.
- After a few years thereafter he took over the editorship
of a journal newspaper named Swadeshabhimani.
- The owners of this newspaper gave him full
authority and liberty to run the newspaper the way
he liked.
- He started writing very strongly against the
prevailing corruption and malpractices of those in
power.
- So those in power were unhappy and
highly irritated from him.
- The criticisms against the Diwan of Travancore,
P. Rajagopalachari, the Government and the
Maharajah of Travancore that appeared in his newspaper
irritated the authorities intensely.
- All this eventually resulted in the confiscation
of the newspaper and press followed by his
arrest and exile from Travancore in 1910.
- After Independence of India, the Government of Kerala
returned the press to its owner's family in
1957.
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