Veteran Communist
leader and former member of the CPI(M)'s Polit Bureau R. Umanath died in a
hospital in Tiruchi on Wednesday. He was 92 and is survived by his daughters U.
Vasuki, who is also the CPI(M) state secretariat member and U. Nirmala Rani.
Com.E K Nayanar was born on 9 December
1919 in Kalliasseri. Despite his father, Govindan Nambiar,
being a believer in the feudalism, Nayanar took to the national movement of the
time at a very young age under the influence of his cousin, K.P.R. Gopalan. Nayanar was influenced by the events
following the admission of a Dalit girl to local school under the leadership of
K.P.R. Gopalan.
Kunjunni, popularly known as Kunjunni Mash
,Mash is a Malayalam equivalent of Teacher/master , was a noted Indian Malayalam
poet. He was considered as a children's poet and his poems were short like him.
He always led a humble life.
Tipu Sultan :(20 November 1750 – 4 May
1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tippoo Sahib was a
ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a scholar, soldier and
poet. Tipu was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali
of Mysore and his wife Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa. Tipu introduced a number of
administrative innovations during his rule, including the introduction of a new
coinage, a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar, and a new land revenue
system, initiating the growth of Mysore silk
industry. Tipu expanded the iron-cased Mysorean
rockets which he deployed in his resistance against military
advances of the British.