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Birth Name: | Mavilodan Kunjikannan |
Birth Place: | Kannur, Kerala, British India |
Death Place: | Kozhikode, Kerala, India |
Office: | journalist, Gandhian, educational and social activist |
Spouse: | Kundancheri Narayani[1] |
Mavilodan Kunjikannan (Malayalam: മാവിലോടന് കുഞ്ഞികണ്ണന്) (3 March 1926 – 30 June 2010), popularly known as Kunjikannan Mash or Kunjikannan Master, was a journalist, Gandhian, and educational and social activist among tribals in Wayanad district of Kerala, India.[2] He wrote for the Malayalam language newspaper Mathrubhumi starting in 1970. He also worked as reporter for Thozhilali, a newspaper published in Thrissur, Kerala. He was president of Kalpetta Girijan Co-Operative Society, and was a member of the Kerala Tribal Board, the State Orphanage Control Board and the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.