K. P. Kesava Menon (1886-1978)
K.P. KesavaMenon, the founder-editor, made Mathrubhumi a voice of the forces fighting for freedom. He courted imprisonment in the Vaikom Sathyagraha.
Kesava Menon spent several years in Malaysia as barrister. He was a minister of propaganda in the parallel government set up by Subhash Chandra Bose in Malaya in 1927. He returned to India after the independence and assumed the editorship of Mathrubhumi.
Mathrubhumi, under the dynamic leadership of K.P. Kesava Menon, played a memorable role in the freedom struggle and did much to spread the ideals of Gandhi and the Congress party.
K.P. Kesava Menon was India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka in 1951. He was also a member of the Kerala Sahithya Academy during 1957-60. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan by the nation. He passed away in 1978.
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