Ravindranath PK
Active journalist for sixty years, P K Ravindranath had a chequered career, few journalists could claim. A regular mainstream Journalist, who worked with mainline publications like ‘The Free Press Journal’,’ The Times of India’,’ The Mathrubhumi’ and ‘The National Herald’, he has been associated with a number of periodicals- ‘Modern Review’, ’Link’ and niche publications like ‘Society and Science’,’ Air Observer’, ‘Skyways’ and ‘Kerala in Mumbai’. It has been a rewarding career for a boy who landed in India as a refugee from Burma where he was born and brought up till April 1940. He began life in Kozhikode at his ancestral home, penniless and at the mercy of his mother’s Uncle. He knew no Malayalam, except to speak the language. Hindi was his second language at school in Burma. As a refugee, he got exemption in Malayalam and joined the Malabar Christian College. Later he moved to Ganapat High School and then Zamorin’s College where he did his Intermediate classes.......