Day: July 22, 2025

V.S. Achuthanandan enjoyed a unique bond with the people of the Malampuzha Assembly constituency in Palakkad, who demonstrated their love and support by

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan portrayed the late Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader V.S. Achuthanandan as a proletarian leader of “extraordinary will

When the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government led by Pinarayi Vijayan came to power in 2016, speculation was rife as to how the

Former Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who passed away here on Monday, will be cremated with full State and party honours at the Valiyachudukadu

V.S. Achuthanandan was at the same time a ‘rebel’ from within and a leader who took his fight forward without breaching the boundaries

In early 2002, a stretch of verdant forestland in Kerala, rich in rare flora and fauna, was quietly being devoured by encroachers. Backed

When I first saw him, comrade VS was addressing a mammoth party rally at Fort Maidan, Palakkad. In his own characteristic style of

Comrade V.S. or Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan was the oldest living communist in India. I first saw him up close in 1970 at a

By the side of Pazhaya Nadakkavu Road at Paravur in Punnapra North grama panchayat in Alappuzha stands a modest house with a compound

Kerala has bid farewell to its last idealist of communist politics. Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan — VS, as we all knew him — was