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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The crisis of Modern civilisation by P.V.Kuryan

P.V.Kuryan came to the national movement when he was a student in 1938. He was later the secretary of ForwardBlock in Travancore. In the Forties he joined the socialist movement and was one of the founder members of the congress Socialist party in Travancore. In subsequent years he stood with dr. Lohya. On Lohya`s death he continued the work for the propogation of Lohya`s ideas. Kuryan a front ranking socialist thinker of kerala has many books to his credit including his magnus Opus Dr.Rammanohar Lohya The Universal Revelutionary. The crisis of Modern civilisation published the soon after the collision of Soviet union. In this remarkable book he enquires the growth and decay of civilisations and the root cause to the decay.