Kerala’s Left Faces a Reckoning After Historic Defeat
It was a cold December night in 1939. A remote hamlet called Parapram in Kannur’s Pinarayi village was making its tryst with history. A group of Malabar’s Congress Socialist Party (CSP) leaders gathered secretly at the local Vivekananda Vayanasala. The venue was chosen to evade British surveillance. Surrounded on three sides by the Ancharakandi river…