Early Life
Sukumaran Nair was born on 16 October 1916 in the village of Thikkurissy, then a part of Travancore. Thikkurissy, the village is now in Nanchilnadu, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. He was born in an aristocratic family to Mangat C. Govinda Pillai and N. Lekshmi Amma. He was a good writer and an orator even when he was doing his schooling in Marthanda Varma School. He wrote his first poem at the age of 8 and his poem was published for the first time when he was 14 in Dhakshina Bharathi. His poems were collectively published as a book named Kedavilakku when he was 20. His parents wanted him to secure a government job, but he launched his career in writing and arts even before he completed his studies. Incidentally, his sister L. Omanakkunjamma was the first female magistrate in India and the first female I. A. S. officer from Kerala.
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