Thirunallor Karunakaran

Thirunalloor Karunakaran was a renowned poet, scholar, teacher, and leftist intellectual of Kerala. He was born in Kollam and started learning Sanskrit in the traditional way before joining the primary school and was associated with the working-class political movement early in life. He published his first book the Malayalam translation of a poem by Oliver Goldsmith while in school. During his student days, he wrote several poems, lyrics, and articles in periodicals and made his mark during the Pink Decade in Malayalam poetry.