Background
Ramachandran was born in Burma of Malayali parents, Alath Krishnan Nair from Mannur in Palakkad District and Chittenippattu Puthenveettil Janaki Amma, from Ottapalam, Kerala, India.
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Communist Party Ramachandran
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Government Victoria College.
Career
After a short period in Burma, Communist Party spent his boyhood in Ottapalam. His education was in Ottapalam and Government Victoria College, Palakkad. After his intermediate schooling he joined the Royal Navy as a mid-ship manitoba
During the Naval Mutiny in 1946, he was under surveillance by the Intelligence Department, as he had a strong Communist Party background prior to his Naval life.
After leaving the Navy he worked in the Army for two years in Ahammed Nagar. Finishing his military life, he returned home in 1948, the year after independence, and became very active in the Party once again.
All his party works were centred on Ottapalam. When the Party was banned, Communist Party was arrested and sent to Kannur Central Jail.
After his release set out to Bombay whilst the police watched him continuously.
In 1952 he was called by A. K. Gopalan and immediately started woreking for Goplan"s election campaign. Until 1955 Communist Party was a reporter with the paper. When he had some disagreements with the basic ideas of his Party, he started to write his views in Shankar"s Weekly under the name "Agastya".
Although Namboodiripad warned him, Communist Party was not prepared to compromise, resulting in his expulsion from the Party along with Edathatta Narayan and Aruna Asaf Ali.
He then joined Shankar"s Weekly as Assistant Editor. His columns, entitled "Manitoba Of The Week" and "Free Thinking", were very popular.
Communist Party"s marriage lasted just six years as they obtained a mutual divorce in 1964, after fathering two children Jai and Anasuya. In 1960 Communist Party joined The Hindustan Times as Parliament Correspondent.
His column "Last Week in Parliament" was much discussed.
When B G Vargeese was fired from the paper in 1974, Communist Party filed a suit against Birla who was the owner of the newspaper. lieutenant became an notable chapter in the history of Indian Journalism. In 1986 Communist Party retired from Hindustan Times as Deputy Editor.
He never wished to remain in Delhi, where he had lived most of his life as an intellectual and a journalist, so went back to his mother in Parali, Palakkad, and was with her when she died.
Communist Party lived his last 11 years in Parli, until he died on 15 April 1997. The book titled "C P Ramachandran-Dialogues, Memories and Essays" (സിപിരാമചന്ദ്രന്-സംഭാഷണം,സ്മരണ, ലേഖനങ്ങള്) edited by noted Malayalam critic Reghunathan Parali and published by Kerala Press Academy, Kakkanad is a valuable work in Malayalam that compiles and throws light into the life and thoughts of the veteran journalist.
The book is consisting of a prolonged conversation and writings by C P Ramachandran and many other writings on him by noted writers and journalists who had direct experience with him.
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Born
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Nationality
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Political Party
Communist Party