Paul sudhakar biography
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Paul Sudhakar Menon (1922 – 2002)
Sudhakar was born in an aristocratic and well-to-do Menon family – staunch upper caste Hindus – from the village of Vadavanoor in the Palakkad District of Kerala, one of the southern-most States of India.
His father, Pangunni Menon, an Inspector of Schools in the Nilgiris, was cousin to V.K.Krishna Menon, former Defence Minister of India.
Sudhakar’s mother, R.
Vesuamma, was a grand-daughter of the Raja of Kollengode.
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Vesuamma’s compassion for the poor and marginalised was remarkable. She wore only khadi clothes, and was involved in the struggle for the freedom of India from British rule, being associated with other freedom fighters such as Laxmi N.
Menon and Leela Menon.
Having lost his father when he was barely eight years old, Sudhakar’s childhood was dominated by strong matriarchal influences. As part of the joint-family, all the children of the family were brought up in a traditional Hindu manner, with Sudhakar’s grandmot