C. K - Ente Priya Sakhaavu / സി.കെ - ..പ്രിയ സഖാവ്

This is a story of love – the story of how a village boy fell in love with communism and how a simple girl fell in love with him. Out of this love tangle emerged the brilliant orator astute lawyer and an uncompromising trade union leader C.K.Sitaram who remained a shining star in the socio-political landscape of Kerala from 1960 to 2020 till he died at the age of 80 in Thiruvananthapuram. From his student days at University College Trivandrum to the pinnacle of his trade union activism and legal practice CK – as he is fondly called - remained grounded giving voice to the voiceless common man sometimes at the risk of coming in the crosshairs of the leadership of the party that he toiled for.  CK’s was a life of a Communist Karmayogi. He did not attain great heights if attaining positions of power is the scale. In the hearts of the common man especially the working class however CK continues to occupy a warm place. This book is a memoir of CK by his wife Ambika Sitaram. Woven into this emotional diary of a wife are not just anecdotes that define the multifaceted personality CK but what comes alive as unmissable backdrops and subtext are historical events from the Independence struggle to the socio-political milieu of their times. For Ambika CK’s soulmate for 60 years this book was a calling a historical duty more than a personal tribute. And the writing as you would experience is a crucible emblazoned by grief and burnished by love.