Berlin kunhanandan nair biography sample
Kunhanandan Nair (), who passed away on August 7, had an uncanny ability to be in the thick of things when history unfolded....
Veteran Communist Berlin Kunhanandan Nair dies at 97
Veteran Communist and journalist Berlin Kunhanandan Nair, who was a repository of the history of the Marxist party in Kerala, died on Monday.
He was 97.
Nair, who had not been keeping well for the past few years, breathed his last at his ancestral home at Narath in Kannur district of Kerala.
Berlin Kunhanandan Nair, who had attended the first congress of the undivided communist party of India held in Mumbai in , recalled the.
Though he never held any top position in the CPM, he had a close camaraderie with many party stalwarts, including EMS Namboothiripad, A K Gopalan and E K Nayanar.
During his around three decade-long career as a journalist in East Germany, Nair was in touch with so many leaders of the erstwhile socialist block.
Nair became European correspondent of the Left publications in India in the early 1960s.
He was the correspondent of the now defunct pro-Left weekly "Blitz" and his long stay in erstwhile East Germany earned him the prefix 'Berlin' with his name. He had also worked at the CPM's state