User:Vaageeswari1/C P RAMACHANDRAN

CP Ramachandran (born 1923), was an Indian journalist. He was born in Burma for Malayali parents Chittenippattu Krishnan Nair and C P Janaki, who were from Ottapalam, Kerala, India. After a short period in Burma CP lived his boyhood in Ottapalam. His education was in Ottapalam and Government Victoria College, Palakkad. After his intermediate he joined Royal Navy as a mid-ship man. During Naval Mutiny in 1946 he was under the surveillance of Intelligence Department as he had a strong Communist Party background prior to his Naval life. After quitting Navy he worked in Army for two years in Ahammed Nagar. Putting an end to his military life, he returned home in 1948, the very next year of independence. Naturally he became very active in Party once again. All his party works were centered on Ottapalam. When party was banned CP got arrested. He was sent Kannur Central Jail. Even after his release police haunted him continuously. He set out to Bombay in this context. But in 1952 he was called by A. K. Gopalan. CP started soon as he received AKG's telegram. Then he indulged in election works for AKG.

Career
In 1953, as per the instruction of E. M. S. Namboodiripad CP went for Delhi to join the Party newspaper 'Crossroads' which turned to be 'New Age' later. He commenced his career as a journalist here. Till 1955 CP was a reporter with the same Paper. When he had some disagreements with the basic ideas of his Party, he started to write his views in Shankar's Weekly by the name 'Agastya'. Though EMS warned him, CP was not ready for a compromise. As a result he was sacked from the Party along with Edathatta Narayan and Aruna Asaf Ali. It made him join Shankar's Weekly as Assistant Editor. His columns titled 'Man Of The Week' and 'Free Thinking' found no bounds of popularity. He happened to develop an affair with Jalabala Vaidya who joined the Paper as a trainee. In 1958 they got married. CP's marital life had a short life of six years. In 1964 they gained mutual divorce. He was fathering two children Ajay and Anasuya during his separation. in 1960 CP joined The Hindustan Times as Parliament Correspondent. His column 'Parliament in Last Week' was much discussed. When B G Vargeese was fired from the Paper in 1974, CP filed a suit against the very Birla who was the owner of the CP's Newspaper. It became an ever glittering chapter in the history of Indian Journalism. In 1986 CP retired from Hindustan Times as Deputy Editor.

Death
He never wished to reamain in Delhi where he lived his lion portion of life as an intellectual and a journalist with an iron back bone. He came back to his mother in Parali, Palakkad. During his mother's death he was with her. CP lived his last 11 years in Parli, his home village's placid atmosphere. In April 15, 1997 CP's heroic life came to an end.