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The Scientist Who Quit BARC to Teach India to Read

Parameswaran's death has drawn attention back to the Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishad and the wider people's science movement he helped lead from the 1970s onward, a movement that fed directly into the National Literacy Mission and into Kerala's model of grassroots, decentralised governance. His passing is being read in Kerala not just as the loss of a scientist but of one of the last living links to that movement's founding…