Murkot Kunhappa

Murkoth Kunhappa was a bureaucrat and, later, a journalist. He was born on May 14, 1905, and was the eldest son of Moorkoth Kumaran, a popular Malayalam short story writer and social reformer. He was an associate editor of Malayala Manorama, a leading Malayalam daily newspaper, from 1966 until his death in 1993, during which he was a dominant presence in the cultural life of Kerala. Like his father, he was a follower of Sree Narayana Gurudevan. He produced many books, writing in English and Tamil as well as in Malayalam: they include Sree Narayana Guru (National Biography), Jivithasmaranakal (Reminiscences), a biography of Mammen Mappilai (the founder of Malayala Manorama) and an English-language children's book, Three bags of gold and other Indian folk tales, which has attracted the interest of students of literature in several American universities.[1] In 1990, he contributed Kalaripayyat to Crossovers: Explorations across Disciplines and Martial Arts, which was published in 1995 by Seagull Theatre Quarterly.