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Why Kerala’s Lokame Tharavadu, showing over 250 Malayali artists, was a need of the hour

Indian Express 05 Sep 2021
Artist Bara Bhaskaran, who is interested in subaltern histories, highlights the role of women coir workers in the historic 1946 Punnapra-Vayalar revolt, where the working classes took up arms under the leadership of the Communist Party of India against the oppressive policies of the then dewan of Travancore, Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer ... Tags ... Live Blog ... .
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Carnatic music legend passes away

The Times of India 23 Jun 2021
Ponnammal started learning music and Sanskrit under the guidance of Ramaswamy Bhagavathar ... Muthayya Bhagavathar, Semmangudi, K R Kumaraswamy Iyer, M A Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar, etc ... Her husband Devanayakam Iyer and two other children — D Ramaswamy and D Kamala — predeceased her.
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Pinarayi Vijayan, designated Communist ministers pay respects at party memorials

Indian Express 20 May 2021
The leaders raised their hands in salute to members of the undivided Communist Party who were killed in a movement against then-Prime Minister of Travancore Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer in 1946. https.//fb.watch/5BMD52-KVV/ ... CPI(M)Click here for more ... Attendance has been curtailed to less than 500 persons in view of the Covid-19 transmission in the state ... x ... .
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Kerala: K R Gouri, revolutionary and romantic, is no more

The Times of India 12 May 2021
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. Veteran communist and former minister K R , one of the architects of ’s path-breaking land reforms, died here on Tuesday ... It was the agitations against Travancore Divan C P Ramaswamy Iyer, especially the Punnapra- Valayar struggle that claimed several lives, that catapulted Gouri to fulltime politics ... .
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BJP candidate offers tributes at Left’s Punnapara memorial, triggers row

The Siasat Daily 20 Mar 2021
The memorial at Valiya Chudukadu here was built in memory of Communists killed during their movement against the ‘misrule’ of Sir C P Ramaswami Iyer, the prime minister of erstwhile Princely state of Travancore in 1946 ... C P Ramaswamy Iyer, who had opposed Travancore ...
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BJP candidate offers tributes at Left's Punnapara memorial, triggers row

The Economic Times 19 Mar 2021
The memorial at Valiya Chudukadu here was built in memory of Communists killed during their movement against the 'misrule' of Sir C P Ramaswami Iyer, the prime minister of erstwhile Princely state of Travancore in 1946 ... .
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Where workers unite: Kerala to get India’s first labour movement museum

Hindustan Times 12 Mar 2021
It will showcase archival photographs and videos of the labour movement and a film on the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising of 1946 — a communist uprising in the princely state of Travancore against the ruler’s Diwan or prime minister, CP Ramaswami Iyer, sparked by new laws that gave him ...
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‘A colonial mindset thought technology could control nature — that caused climate change’

The Times of India 12 Feb 2021
This reminds me of Ramaswamy Iyer, the well-known water policy expert who underwent a change of heart, from being a supporter of large dams in the 1980s to an eloquent critic a decade later. Iyer lamented the enduring effects of a colonial ‘Promethean’ view that had an iron ...
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Guthrie cancels three-play season set for March 2021; Nikki Giovanni at Pen Pals

MinnPost 04 Nov 2020
... evening-length dance, “Fires of Varanasi.” For this online event, Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy and award-winning chef Raghavan Iyer – all first-generation Indian Americans – will talk about food, ritual, and ways in which culinary traditions can make a new place feel like home.
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As VS Achuthanandan Turns 97, Communist Colossus from Kerala Remains Quintessential Survivor

Yahoo Daily News 20 Oct 2020
His transformation from a rigid communist leader to a darling of the masses in the past 25 years may have a lesson or two for those who think life ends with failures ... Achuthanandan raised his voice against the policies of CP Ramaswamy Iyer, who was the-then Divan of Travancore, for the 'American model of government' ... However, he somehow survived ... .
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Muraleedharan reminds governor of Sir CP’s fate

The Times of India 21 Jan 2020
Congress leader and MP K Muraleedharan has asked governor Arif Mohammad Khan to read the history of Diwan of Travancore Sir C P Ramaswamy Iyer. Speaking at the fasting staged by IUML leader M K Muneer here on Tuesday, he said Iyer had to leave Kerala with a half-cut nose.
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Over 1,000 scientists and scholars demand immediate withdrawal of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in open letter to Union government

Yahoo Daily News 09 Dec 2019
The statement further goes on to note the "careful exclusion" of Muslims from the ambit of the Bill and expresses the fear that this will strain the pluralistic fabric of the country ... M ... 479 Priya Iyer IISc ... 481 Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science ... 690 Ram Ramaswamy IIT Delhi ... 1052 Bala Iyer ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore ... 1060 Sree Subha Ramaswamy NCBS ... .
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The journey within

Indian Express 25 Nov 2019
Advertising ... Raman Iyer, who plays the mandolin, says performing in Kabir’s birthplace sweetens the deal ... The band has Arya on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Iyer on mandolin, Mukund Ramaswamy on violin, Viren Solanki on percussions, and Poubuanpou Britto KC on bass guitar. Iyer says, “We have all been introduced to Kabir in our school textbooks ... news.
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Consumerism and climate change are characters in Visual Respiration’s Under Pressure

The Hindu 12 Nov 2019
Spread across the stage is a plastic sheet. On it is a collage of used and unused bags and labels screaming the names of brands that we, as consumers, eagerly lap up ... “For instance, I remember how Dr Nandita Krishna of CP Ramaswamy Iyer Trust told me that ‘there is no such thing as sustainability’ ... Almost like a chorus, it presented a powerful visual.
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Kerala: N P Ramaswamy passes away

The Times of India 06 Nov 2019
Veteran Carnatic musician N P Ramaswamy passed away here on Tuesday ... His father N P R Iyer was a musician. Ramaswamy is survived by two sons ...
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