Red Salutes to Com. T L Narayana
Leader of OPDR
Honoraryble President of Organisation
of Progressive Democratic Rights,
Professor of Chemistry, T. L. Narayana
died on 31.10.2017 while fighting cancer.
He was 83 years old.
T.L.Narayana was born on 18.12.1934
in Kuchipudi near the town of Tenali. He
had his education at Kuchipudi,
Machilipatnam and Banaras.
He worked as a Chemistry lecturer in
Nidubrolu and Tenali. From 1969 onwards
until his retirement in 1991, he worked as
head of the Chemistry department in
Velagapudi Rama Krishna Memorial College
at Nagaram near Repalle.
As a socially responsible intellectual, he
extended his active cooperation to
rationalist movements and oppressed
people’s movements, all the while working
in the teaching profession. In 1973, he joined
the people’s democratic rights movement and
from 1975 onwards he served OPDR at various
levels as an active member, as state executive
committee member, as state secretary and as
president. He is acting as Honorary President
OPDR at the time of his demise. During this period
he travelled extensively from Srikakulam to
Anantapur for the protection of democratic rights
and brought to light many suppressed facts
through fact finding committees.
Along with Charvaka Ramakrishna, he
conducted various programs for the spreading of
rationalism and scientific temper.
He addressed many meetings on education
system, as a member of Andhra Pradesh
Teachers Federation.
He taught students and youth dialectical and
historical materialism, on various occasions. He
performed a number of progressive marriages.
He joined the Revolutionary Writers
Association in 1972 and came out of it in 1975
along with Jwalamukhi and others.
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Even though T.L Narayana is so compassio-
nate and amicable, he never compromised in his
philosophy and policies and always behaved with
conviction. He never lost his confidence even when
there is ebb and tide in the rights movement,
ups and downs in his personal life and even when
his health is deteriorating.
When police tried to picture him as a naxalite
and asked the Nagaram college management to
remove him, the management responded by
saying that he is the best lecturer and that they
won’t sack him even if he is a naxalite. In such
situations managements usually won’t back a
person unless he is so dedicated towards his
profession. This is just a sample of his character
and dedication.
As a student, Narayana was attracted to
radical communism and Arya Samaj but later his
studies and experiences made him move to
Marxism. From then on he lived all his life as a
communist.
Red Salutes to T.L.Narayana !
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