He did not receive any formal education but was trained in Sanskrit language, first under the Sanskrit scholar Variyam Parambil Kunjan Nair and then under his own uncle Ramunni Menon, who introduced him into the world of Sanskrit poetry. Vallathol was born in Chennara, Mangalam, Tirur, in Malappuram District, Kerala, as the son of Kadungotte Mallisseri Damodaran Elayathu and Kuttipparu Amma. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali. He also wrote against caste restriction, tyrannies and orthodoxies. He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. The honorific Mahakavi (English: "great poet") was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of his Mahakavya Chitrayogam. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam, along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 – 13 March 1958) was a poet in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the south Indian state of Kerala. Poetry, Indian independence activism, social reform, revival of Kathakali Mangalam, Tirur, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India (Present day Malappuram district, Kerala, India)
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