B. Rajeevan


B. Rajeevan is a Malayalam author and literary critic from Kerala, India.

Biography

He was born in 1946 in Kayamkulam near Quilon, Kerala. He studied at SN College, Quilon and University College, Trivandrum. He has been teaching Malayalam literature in government colleges since 1971. During the Emergency (India)|Emergency] in 1975, he was branded as a Naxalite sympathiser and had to face police harassment and house arrest. In the eighties, he served on the State Committee of the Janakeeya Samskarika Vedi and participated in various struggles. He was arrested and was expelled from his long-time college post. Since 1969, he has written and published essays on philosophy, aesthetics, history, political thought, film and poetry. He has been living together with poet Savithri Rajeevan from 1975 onwards.
He has a position as a jury member of the Kerala State Film Award Committee and is also the Chairman of the Jury on the John Abraham Award Committee.

List of works

Swathanthryathinte Samagratha Jaivarashtreeyavum Janasanjayavum Marxisavum Shasthravum Anyavalkaranavum Yogavum Jananibidamaya DanthagopuramVarthamanathinte Charithram Vakkukalum Vasthukkalum
  • ''EMSinte Swapnam''

Awards