Early Life
Neelakantan was born in 1923 in a Tamil Brahmin family in Kavassery, a village in Palakkad district. As his father was a veterinary surgeon in the Mysore Government Service, his early schooling was in Chitradurga. The rest of his schooling was done in five different schools in Malabar. He studied for the Intermediate in the Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode and for the B.A. (Hons) in English literature in the Madras Christian College (1941–44).
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