Vallathol Narayana Menon

Who was Vallathol Narayana Menon?

Vallathol Narayana Menon, popularly known as Mahakavi, was a poet in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the south Indian state of Kerala. K. M. George has noted that, together with Kumaran Asan, Menon was "responsible for bringing about a revolutionary change in Malayalam poetry in the [nineteen]-twenties. Asan concentrated on social themes and Vallathol championed the national movement; yet both made very significant contributions to the khandkavya, ie: the short poem of the lyrical type."

Menon was born in Chenara, near Tirur, in Malappuram District, Kerala.