Shri. K. Sankaranarayana Pillai-Ex Minister,Kerala

Shri. K. Sankaranarayana Pillai-Ex Minister,Kerala

Shri. K. Sankaranarayana Pillai, Advocate and political leader, was born as the son of Shri. S. Kumara Pillai on 3rd November 1945 at Nedumangad.

He entered politics through KSU and Youth Congress, and was the President of KSU, and Youth Congress in Trivandrum District. He served as the General Secretary, D.C.C. Trivandrum from 1969 to 1972 and later, as its President too.

In 1980 he also became the General Secretary of KPCC(S). Shri. Sankaranarayana Pillai became elected to the KLA in 1982 and 1987, from Trivandrum East constituency, representing Congress (S) party.

He was the Minister for Transport, from 2..4..1987 to 17..6..1991, in the Ministry headed by Shri. E.K. Nayanar. Shri. Pillai has also served at different times as Member, KSEB, President, Taxi Drivers Co-operative Society, Director, Kerala State Financial Enterprises and as Director, Kerala State Co-operative Marketing Federation. Later, he formed a new party, the Kerala Vikas Party, which merged with the INC subsequently, and was its Chairman too.

Smt. K.R. Kumari Girija is his wife and they have two daughters.

Veellanadu Ramachandran-the Historian

write up by C. Gouridasan Nair(The Hindu)

A 934-page book packages the history, geography and culture of a village which has 25,000 inhabitants.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: How much history can a village with a population of around 25,000 possibly have? If the question is put to Vellanad Ramachandran, a BSNL employee, he would present you with a copy of ‘Vellanad: History and Evolution,' a 934-page book into which he has weaved in a fascinating account of his native village's geography, history and culture.

Mr. Ramachandran, a geology graduate with no formal training in the writing of history, had spent the last one decade and roughly Rs.1.25 lakh of his earnings to write the history of Vellanad, which is a rare work of its kind even in these days of heightened awareness about local history. ‘‘I have always been interested in history and folklore and used to write articles and present papers on both these topics. That was how I decided to take up the challenge of writing Vellanad's history,'' says Mr. Ramachandran.

The extensively researched book, in which some 130 references have been cited, is an attempt to place Vellanad, a village to the east of the State capital, in the framework of South Indian history. From the stone edicts to the contemporary political polarisations, the book takes an exhaustive look at the land, language, people, crops, cultivation habits past and present and the changes that have come in almost every facet of life in the village over time.

The book is simultaneously a dictionary of place names and a dispassionate document of the cultural and developmental history of Vellanad. The different communities that have inhabited the area from early times, the language of the ‘Kani' tribe and the plainspeople, the local festivals, important families and individuals at different times and the songs that used to be sung on different occasions have all found a place in the book which could be said to be lacking in the rigour of an academic historian, but is notable for the wealth of information that it contains.
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