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Quiz on K. RAMAKRISHNA PILLAI



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K. Ramakrishna Pillai (25 May 1878 - 28 March 1916) was a writer, journalist, Newspaper editor, and political activist in the erstwhile princely state of (Kerala, India).
He was the editor of the newspaper (The Patriot) and hence known by this name prefixed to his birth name.
The criticisms against the of Travancore, P. Rajagopalachari, the Government and the Maharajah of Travancore that appeared in his newspaper irritated the authorities and eventually resulted in the of the newspaper and press on the 26th September, 1910 and he was arrested and from Travancore in 1910.
He wrote Vrithantha Pathra Pravarthanam (1912), the first book on in the Malayalam language.
He also wrote the biography of Karl Marx (1912) in , which was the first Marx biography in any language.
He wrote strongly against the age-old and ill customs of those days.
He challenged the society by marrying a caste woman from the Nair community.
In 1904, his wife Nanikutti Amma died. Later he remarried B. Kalyani Amma.
Many of the Indian newspapers, during that time, reacted strongly against the arrest and banishment of Ramakrishna Pillai and the confiscation of the .
After of India, the Government of Kerala returned the press to Moulavi' s (the original owner) family in 1957.
On 28 March 1916, Ramakrishna Pillai died of ailing .
Ramakrishna Pillai wrote over 20 books in his and many of them are very notable.
Swadesha abhimani Smaraka Samidhi is the trust formed in the memory of Ramakrishna Pillai. The Samidhi observes of the banishment of Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai every year, which is attended by several eminent personalities.
Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai Award is awarded for journalism every year by the Government of Kerala.
of Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai are constructured at Neyyattinkara and at Payyambalam Beach, Kannur.