Sri Narayana Guru

Kumaran Asan wrote about his mentor Sree Narayana Guru. Narayana Guru, also known as Sri Narayana Guru, (c. 1854 - 20 September 1928), was a social reformer of India. He was born into a family of the Ezhava caste in an era when people from such communities, which were regarded as Avarna, faced much injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala. He led a reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality.