Aravindan Neelakandan

Aravindan Neelakandan

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  • Name:
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
  • Born:
  • June 16, 1971

Aravindan Neelakandan Biography

Aravindan Neelakandan is a noted Tamil author. He co-authored the English non-fiction book Breaking India with Rajiv Malhotra, which was a bestseller. This writer belongs to the group of Indian thinkers of cultural evolutionism about Indian ethnogenesis. He has been deeply influenced by the books, social life and life style of many personalities like B. R. Ambedkar, Charles Darwin, Savarkar, Carl Gustav Jung, Ram Swarup, Sita Ram Goel, Swami Vivekananda etc. Indology, ecology, comparative mythology, evolution, psychology etc are his prime interests.

 

His full name is Aravindan Neelakandan Pillai. He was born in Nagercoil of Kanyakumari district in the year 1971. His paternal grandfather was a scholar, who practised Tamil marital arts. His father, N. S. Pillai, is a Tamil scholar and retired college professor. His mother too is a retired professor of economics, and both of them worked in Travancore Hindu College in Nagercoil. Aravindan studied agricultural studies followed by a master's degree in psychology as well as economics.

 

As a writer he started off writing articles on science and Indology in the Tamil portal Thinnai.com. He has been a columnist of UPI Asia, and continued writing for many Tamil portals and online magazines. He currently serves as the mentor to the Srishti Madurai. Majority of his published works and columns are in Tamil language, and a few English and Kannada. He earned fame after co-authoring book, Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines, aside Rajiv Malhotra. In 2011, this book was in the list of top 10 bestseller books in India. Through this non-fiction work, the writers argue that India's integrity is being undermined by the support of western institutions for the Dravidian movement and Dalit identity.

Published: September 03, 2018

Updated: September 03, 2018

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