Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
Akathoot Balakrishna Pillai (1889–1960), better known as
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai, was a
Malayalam writer, art and literary critic and journalist, considered by many as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Kerala. He was the
eponymous founder of the newspaper, ''
Kesari'' and was one of the three major figures in modern Malayalam literary criticism, along with
Joseph Mundassery and
M. P. Paul. Besides works such as ''Kesariyude Lokangal'', ''Navalokam'', ''Sankethika Nirupanangal Sahitya Nirupanangal'', ''Rupamanjari'', he also wrote a text in English under the title, ''Outlines of the Proto-Historic Chronology of Western Asia''.
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