[Cong.(I) – Madras North (Tamil Nadu)]

Place of Birth

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Children

Educational Qualifications

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Present Address

Positions held

1972-86

1987

1989

1990

7 June, 1990

1991

Books published

Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments

Social and Cultural Activities

Special Interests

Favourite Pastime
and Recreation

Sports and Clubs

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Other Information

Vellaimalaipatti in Distt. Madurai (Tamil Nadu)

Married on 28th May, 1956

Smt. Joyce Pandian

One son and two daughters

M.A., B.L.

Educated at Alaggappa College, Karaikudi, Law College, Madras

Lawyer, Teacher and Journalist, Educationist, Political and Social Worker

10, Rathina Sobathy Street, T.H. Road, Old Washermenpet Madras-600021 (Tamil Nadu)

45, North Avenue, New Delhi-110001. Tel. 3792687

Member, National Council, C.P.I.

Member, Central Committee, United Communist Party of India

Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth)

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Environment and Forests

Member, Subject Committee on Science and Technology

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth)

“The story of Jews and the Torture of Arabs; Park or Death Pit?”; “Fire set by D.M.K, to Tamil”; “Bharathi and Casteism”; “Poet Pattukkottai”; “Reservation Question”; “Multinational Corporation”; “Hurdles against Backward Classes”; “Economic Crisis and Solution”; “Communist Party’s Fifty Year Achievements and Let Marxist Think”; translated “Virg. Soil Upturned” (2 Vols.); “Tolstoy— Story of a Lorry Driver”; “My First Teacher”; “State Monopoly and Economics”; “Devaluation and What Happened in Czechoslovakia”

Received Soviet Land Nehru Award

Propagated the arranged intercaste marriages, headed various trade unions

To study the Indian society

Reading, writing, gardening and social service

General interest in sports

East Germany, Hungary, Sri Lanka and U.S.S.R.

Leader, A.I.S.F. (Later All India Youth Federation); President, Indian Railway Labour Union and several other trade unions; Member; Madras Dock Labour Board for 3 years; Trustee, Madras Port Trust; was seriously injured while accompanying former Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi to Sriperumbudur on 21 May, when the latter was assassinated. Scheduled to translate the speeches of Shri Rajiv Gandhi.