Early Life
Panikkar was born at Guruvayoor in Thrissur, Kerala.He graduated from Government Victoria College, Palakkad in the mid 1950s. The College was then affiliated to Madras University. It was there that he was attracted to the analysis of exploitation and a vision of a humane society put forward by Marxism. During his undergraduate student days, he worked as the Vice-President, Malabar District Committee of the Student Federation—student wing of the undivided Communist Party of India. He was also elected as the Chairman of Victoria College Students’ Union during the same period. The ideas and patronage which he received from his relative and a prominent Communist Party leader Shri.K.P.Madhava Menon played a key role in shaping young Panikkar's ideas. After graduation, he proceeded to University of Rajasthan for higher studies, from where he obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees.
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