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K R Namboothiri endowment award winner P N Das passes away

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P N Das completed his college education at Sree Neelakanta Government Sanskrit College, Pattambi, and wrote several articles in various periodicals, including the banned magazine ‘Prasakthi’. 

Writer and teacher P N Das (File Photo |EPS)

Kozhikode : 

Writer and teacher P N Das died at Government Medical College Hospital here on July 28. He was 72. Das was undergoing treatment for brain infection.

The writer who penned several books was a recipient of the K R Namboothiri endowment award, instituted by Kerala Sahitya Akademi, for the book ‘Oru Thullivelicham’ in 2014. ‘Bhodi Vrikshathinet Ilakal’, ‘Dyanapadangal’, ‘Jeevitha Ganam’, are among his other works. Das completed his college education at Sree Neelakanta Government Sanskrit College, Pattambi, and wrote several articles in various periodicals, including the banned magazine ‘Prasakthi’. 

He was also detained during emergency. The body will be kept at his house in Thalakkulathur and at Town Hall for public homage on Monday, following which he will be cremated at 11 am.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Kerala / by Express News Service / July 29th, 2019

A man with an unshakable passion for the printed word

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Beyond boundaries: Unnikrishnan’s (inset) newspaper collection documents the transition to advanced printing technology and from black and white to colour.  

Kaloor Unnikrishnan’s collection of newspapers and magazines is a trove of routine events and milestones

From Indira Gandhi’s death in the now-defunct Kerala Times to the careers of yesteryear movie stars in film magazines, Kaloor Unnikrishnan’s collection of newspapers and magazines is a trove of both routine events and milestones from India and abroad.

The oldest publications in Mr. Unnikrishnan’s possession are Mathrubhumi and Manorama weeklies from 1932 and 1933 that he procured from a friend.

He began collecting newspapers as a teenager in 1965, when his letters to the editor of Mathrubhumi would appear on most days of the week.

When he began interviewing celebrities for film magazines later, he collected those too, and the occasional interest developed into a hobby. He would buy newspapers and magazines on his travels and received international publications like The New York Times, Washington Post and magazines from Israel and the UAE, from his friends.

Mr. Unnikrishnan’s collection documents transformations in printing and prices.

“More than half of the magazines and newspapers in my collection don’t exist anymore. Of the nearly 60 film magazines that used to exist at one point, only around 15 survive today,” said the 64-year-old whose three-day exhibition of the collection concluded on Saturday.

The collection also documents transitions to more advanced printing technology and from black and white to colour. He has a copy of the Mathrubhumi’s first colour edition out of Kochi in 1985, which also bore news of poet Vyloppilli’s death.

Besides dailies, he collects children’s magazines and bulletins. He takes no special care to store them, he said, and has lost a few weeklies to dampness in the monsoon.

“If libraries or other organisations are willing to take them and care for them, I’ll gladly give them away,” he added.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Kochi / by Staff Reporter / Kochi – July 28th, 2019