DesiPundit

During the cold war era, India did not want to align with both the superpowers and hence became the leader of the non-aligned movement and sided with the Russians. In Kerala, it was the time of Communist indoctrination - through Russian books translated into Malayalam and worshipful articles by Communist writers. Nandakumar writes about various stories used for indoctrination.

Even in ‘Sarkari’ textbooks of a generation ago, Marx had a larger than life presence (again, in Kerala). A couple of pages of our History textbook in class 10 was devoted to a dense summary of the Doctrines of Marx and we had to learn phrases such as ‘Dialectical formula’, ‘Dialectical materialism, ‘Mind’ being an ‘Emanation from Matter’ and how surplus production and profit leads to a consolidation of the Capital. Hardly any other philosopher/economic theorist/political scientist of any nationaliy/inclination was even mentioned anywhere else in that book.