Edatata Narayanan ( 1907 – 1978 ) was a famous journalist and a freedom fighter from India.

When Edatata Narayanan wanted to make some editorial changes amidst reported opposition from the editorial staff, he told them in no uncertain terms that he belonged to the school of journalism where the editor's view is final.

* Book by Edatata Narayanan.

She however left that party along with Edatata Narayanan and they visited Moscow along with Rajani Palme Dutt.

* O. V. Vijayan under Edatata Nrayanan

She and Narayanan started Link publishing house and published a daily newspaper, Patriot and a weekly, Link the same year.

Independence activists such as P. Ramanunni Nair, K. Kelappan, P. Narayanan Nair, C. H. Kunjappa, K. A. Damodara Menon, and A. P. Udhayabhanu have served as Chief Editors of the newspaper, and also mathrubhumi has also witnessed some of the very splendid IAS / Civil Service officers as editors.

K. Karunakaran, Congress Chief Minister of Kerala, a political adversary of his, informed Narayanan that he was not made a minister because of him being a " Communist fellow-traveller ".

* Chintha Varika, Chief Editor: C P Narayanan

Kocheril Raman Narayanan ( 27 October 1920 – 9 November 2005 ) was the tenth President of India.

K. R. Narayanan was born in a small thatched hut at Perumthanam, Uzhavoor, as the fourth of seven children of Kocheril Raman Vaidyar, a physician practicing the traditional Indian medical systems of Siddha and Ayurveda, and Punnaththuraveettil Paappiyamma.

He was born on 27 October 1920, but his uncle, who accompanied him on his first day in school, did not know his actual date of birth, and arbitrarily chose 27 October 1920 for the records ; Narayanan later chose to let it remain official.

The family lacked money to buy books and his elder brother K. R. Neelakantan, who was confined to home as he was suffering from asthma, used to borrow books from other students, copy them down, and give them to Narayanan.

Nehru, who had also been the Minister for External Affairs during his 16 years as PM, held that K. R. Narayanan was " the best diplomat of the country.

Ma Tint Tint was active in the YWCA and on hearing that Narayanan was a student of Laski, approached him to speak on political freedom before her circle of acquaintances.

Their marriage needed a special dispensation from Nehru per Indian law, because Narayanan was in the IFS and she was a foreigner.

Narayanan was not included in the cabinet when the Congress returned to power in 1991.

K. R. Narayanan was elected as the Vice President of India on 21 August 1992, under the Presidency of Shankar Dayal Sharma.

On his relationship with the Left front, Narayanan later clarified that he was neither a devotee nor a blind opponent of Communism ; they had known of his ideological differences, but had supported him as Vice President ( and later as President ) because of special political circumstances that prevailed in the country.

K. R. Narayanan was elected to the Presidency of India ( 17 July 1997 ) with 95 % of the votes in the electoral college, as a result of the Presidential poll on 14 July.

T. N. Seshan was the sole opposing candidate, and all major parties save the Shiv Sena supported his candidature., while Seshan alleged that Narayanan had been elected solely for being a Dalit.

Narayanan sought to change what was a long-standing practice of Indian presidents not voting during general elections.

During his Presidency, Narayanan dissolved the Lok Sabha twice after determining through consultations across the political spectrum, that no one was in a position to secure the confidence of the house.

When evidence from neither party was forthcoming, Narayanan informed the Prime minister that fresh elections seemed to be the only way to resolve the crisis in governance.

In these decisions, President Narayanan set a new precedent concerning the appointment of a Prime minister — if no party or pre-election coalition had a majority, then a person would be appointed Prime minister only if he was able to convince the President ( through letters of support from allied parties ) of his ability to secure the confidence of the house.

Narayanan suggested to Vajpayee that the Rajya Sabha be convened to discuss the conflict, as demanded by several opposition parties ( citing the precedent of Nehru convening a parliamentary session on Vajpayee's demand during the Sino-Indian war in 1962 ) though there was no precedent of convening the Rajya Sabha in isolation during an interregnum.

Further, Narayanan was briefed by the chiefs of the three arms of the Indian Armed Forces on the conduct of the conflict.

President Narayanan was deeply pained and anguished, and described it as a grave crisis of the society and the nation ; he called it the duty of every Indian to strive to restore peace and thus preserve and strengthen the foundations of the state and the tradition of tolerance.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

Four siblings, K. R. Gowri, K. R. Bhargavi, K. R. Bharathi, and K. R. Bhaskaran, survived him ; two elder brothers had died when Narayanan was in his twenties.

During this time he once interviewed Mahatma Gandhi in Bombay on his own volition ( 10 April 1945 ). Narayanan then went to England ( 1945 ) and studied political science under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics ( LSE ); he also attended lectures by Karl Popper, Lionel Robbins, and Friedrich Hayek.

K. R. N. F is also producing a documentary ( both in Malayalam and English ) on the life of K. R. Narayanan, entitled The Footprints Of Survival, aimed at propagating the ideals and perpetuating the memory of K. R. Narayanan.

Later that year, the AICF was also embroiled in a controversy with Geetha Narayanan Gopal.

Narayanan is also thought to be the author of an elaborate commentary of Bhaskara II's Lilavati, titled Karmapradipika ( or Karma-Paddhati ).

A contemporary of greats like Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon and Guru Kunchu Kurup, Narayanan Nair also shone in virtuous slots like Bahukan and Brihannala, anti-hero roles like Shishupalan and Keechakan, grotesque characters like Raudra Bhiman and even minor roles like Mannaan, Aanakkaran, Narasimham, Bheeru and Yavanan.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

K. R. Narayanan with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 3 October 2000.

President Narayanan returned for reconsideration the advices from the Union cabinet to impose President's rule in a state, in accordance with Article 356, in two instances: one from the Gujral government ( 22 October 1997 ) seeking to dismiss the Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, and the other from the Vajpayee government ( 25 September 1998 ) seeking to dismiss the Rabri Devi government in Bihar.

After his retirement as President, K. R. Narayanan, along with his wife Usha, lived his remaining years in a central Delhi bungalow ( on 34 Prithviraj Road ).

K. R. Narayanan died on 9 November 2005 at the Army Research and Referral Hospital, New Delhi, after being briefly ill with pneumonia and consequent renal failure.

* Among the many people with the name Narayan are the novelist R. K. Narayan, the 10th President of India K. R. Narayanan, Infosys founder and Non-Executive Chairman of the board N. R. Narayana Murthy, the political activist Jayaprakash Narayan, the singer Udit Narayan and the Indo-Fijian stateswoman Irene Jai Narayan.

* I, Narayanan, do not want offerings, bribes, and kavati and I want to do away with these activities henceforth.

Pulikkodan ( his family name ) Narayanan was in charge of Perambra police station, and was specifically moved into the squad dealing with the Naxalites.

In the memories of Eachara Warrier, father of Rajan narrates the cruel incident like this " Pulikkodan Narayanan began kicking Rajan in his stomach with his heavy police boots.