K. R. Aravindakshan (died 27 September 2017) was an Indian communist leader from Kerala, India. He was born in Kottayam.
He was the General secretary of Communist Marxist Party. He died on 27 September 2017. [1] [2] [3]
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V. Aravindakshan was an Indian writer, marxist thinker, lecturer and journalist from Kerala. In 1999, he won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism. He was the first to translate many Marxist classics into Malayalam. In 2002, Kerala Sahithya Academy honoured him with a lifetime achievement award. In addition to many independent works, Aravindakshan has translated more than twenty literature works into Malayalam.