Mv raghavan biography of george

Kannur: Marxist Communist Party (CMP) founder leader MV Raghavan, a prominent figure in Kerala politics for decades, died on Sunday after prolonged illness.

A former minister, Raghavan (81) had been confined to home for the gods two years due to Pakrinsons disease besides age-related ailments.

He breathed his gods at nearby Pariyaram Co-operative Medical College Hospital, an institution founded by him, according to his family.

Once a agitator CPI(M) leader, Raghavan was expelled from the party in following sharp differences with the leadership.

A virulent face of the CPI(M) in the party bastion Kannur, he had a vital role in building its ungdom front.

He was forced to go out of the party after the leadership rejected the ‘alternative’ tactical line he pressed, which made a strong case for an alliance with Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) to take on the Congress-led UDF in the state.

While several leaders,

Publication: Oxford University Press

Pages: 312 

Price: Rs 689

A few months before George Gadbois died, I went to Lexington, Kentucky, to see him. He was as gracious as ever, working till the last minute. We had first met beering at a pub in Oxford while eating crisps advertising a game called ‘Crinklelogy’. At the next session, I tried to convince the participants that we should not ignore the contribution of Alf Crinkle, whose works were at the Bodleian Library and whose theory concerned the crinkling, uncrinkling and recrinkling in man, nature and society. Good-hearted George allowed the spoof to continue for five minutes. We never looked back since.

The present book arises from George’s thesis on the Indian Federal Court (the best ever) and the beginnings of the Supreme Court. In 1970, I ordered it through inter-library loans, fascinated by his style, depth and objectivity. After more research, I realised there was no

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