Valathol Narayana Menon - charcoal pencil sketch.

Vallathol Narayana Menon was a poet in the Malayalam language. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam, along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer.

He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. He also wrote against caste restriction, tyrannies and orthodoxies. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali.

My humble tribute to Narayana Menon with my charcoal pencil sketch.