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Vadayakkandy Narayanan is an English teacher of Shantiniketan Higher Secondary School and the founder of one of the most successful students’ environment movements in Kerala called SAVE. He has been working for over 33 years and has not used anything other than an ink pen to write. Mr. Vadayakkandy Narayanan was born at Chaniyam Kadave as the seventh child of Vadayakkandy Gopalan Master and Pashnakkuzhi Mathu Amma. He is the youngest of four brothers and two sisters. He had his education at Thiruvallur East U.P School, Santhinikethan Sec. School Thiruvallur, Maneesha Arts College Vatakara, Govt.College Madappally, Titus Second Teachers’ College Thiruvalla, and Madurai Kamaraj University. He is a postgraduate in English Language and Literature, has BEd and SET. Now he works as a English Senior Lecturer in  at Santhinikethan Higher Sec. School Thiruvallur.

He married Leju Panayullathil, Kolavippalam on 1st February 1998 .She is a homemaker. They have two daughters, Gopika.N.Lakshmi an MSc Botany student and Anavadya N Lakshmi a BTech pupil at Model Engineering College, Thrikkakkara.

Mr. Vadayakkandy is the winner of Kerala Government Vanamithra award of 2018-2019.He won the National Teacher Innovation Award 2019. In 1998 he started an initiative to make his home Panchayath, Thiruvallur, plastic free.Making use of the economic assistance from the district administration, along with some sponsorship from SBI Cherandathur, under the auspices of the School Eco Club, he started the project. As part of it a container each was placed in each school in the Panchayath to collect plastic waste.The program was formally inaugurated by the district collector Dr Usha Titus.However the project did not bear fruits, as there was no way to dispose the collected waste. He was the coordinator of the SAVE,Student Army for Vivid Environment (visit www.savevatakara.weebly.com) for five years from 2014 ,district president of Samskara Vedi, Gen. Secretary of English Graduates’ Association, Kerala Chapter Chairman of Mind Tune Eco waves Global NGO Society, Vice President of Kerala Jaiva Karshaka Samithi Kozhikode district committee, he was the State  Vice President of USEA (Universal Service Environmental Association),  an SRG in English and the former President of English Alumni Association Govt. College Madappally.He is famous as an announcer in school youth festivals, who uses only Malayalam words. And he prepared a Malayalam version of Duty Certificate as 'Sevana Sakshya Pathram'. Also he is a media man. He is a poet and lyricist. And he is a politician too. He published a book entitled "SAVE Paristhithi Padanathinu Oru Aamukham", on 3rd June 2022, at BEM, UP School Puthiyara. Poet PK Gopi released it, Husain Madavoor received it, Prof. Shobheendran presided.