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to M K Sanu on 20 August 2017. During his speech at the event
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This had been a significant publication with an intellectual appeal on people of Kerala due mainly to the persons by whom it was started and had been published for over four decades — the legendary
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was brought out in August, 1929. Sahodaran
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M. C. Joseph, meaning M. C. Joseph the rationalist. In July 1974, at the age of 87, he handed over the magazine job to Unni
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