Vallathol Narayana Menon

Vallathol Narayana Menon, the eminent romantic poet of Kerala, portrayed through his Malayalam poems, man's determined struggle against social tyranny and orthodoxy and his indomitable will to freedom breaking all barriers of caste system and communalism. Through his writings he put social content in our struggle for national independence. Vallathol founded the Kerala-Kalamandalam and revived the great Kathakali dance. 

K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri

Vallathol Narayan Menon (1878 - 1956)