Vallathol Narayana Menon
Indian poet (1878ā1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 ā 13 March 1958) was a Malayalam poet and one of the triumvirate of modern Malayalam poetry, along with Asan and Ulloor. The honorific Mahakavi was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of his Mahakavya Chitrayogam.[1] He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. He also wrote against the caste system, the tyranny of the British and Brahmanas and other social orthodoxies. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali.
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Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon | |
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Born | (1878-10-16)16 October 1878 Mangalam, Tirur, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India (Present day Malappuram district, Kerala, India) |
Died | 13 March 1958(1958-03-13) (aged 79) |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Malayalam Poet, translator |
Known for | Poetry, Indian independence activism, social reform, revival of Kathakali |
Awards | Padma Bhushan (1954) |
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