Cannankara Velayudhan Raman Pillai(C.V.Raman Pillai) (Malayalam:സി.വി. രാമന്പിള്ള) (May 19, 1858- March 21, 1922) was one of the great Indian novelists and playwrights and the greatest novelist and pioneering playwright and journalist in Malayalam. He is often called and known as C.V.
Born in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), capital city of the erstwhile native State of Travancore, on May 19, 1858 to Neelakanta Pillai, a Sanskrit scholar and Par...
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Cannankara Velayudhan Raman Pillai(C.V.Raman Pillai) (Malayalam:സി.വി. രാമന്പിള്ള) (May 19, 1858- March 21, 1922) was one of the great Indian novelists and playwrights and the greatest novelist and pioneering playwright and journalist in Malayalam. He is often called and known as C.V.
Born in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), capital city of the erstwhile native State of Travancore, on May 19, 1858 to Neelakanta Pillai, a Sanskrit scholar and Parvathy Pillai, who both belonged to the middle class and were employees at the Palace of the Maharaja of Travancore. Named Raman and fondly called Ramu by near and dear ones, the boy had a traditional Sanskritized education, early in life, under his father's tutelage which included lessons in Ayurveda and even magic and Tantra. When he was 12 years old, under the patronage of Sri Sankaran Thampi, palace manager of Maharajah Ayilyam Thirunal, he entered the first English school in Thiruvananthapuram and graduated from H. H. Maharaja's College,...
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