B. V. Kakkilaya

Biography Kakkilaya was born on 11 April 1919 in Bevinje, a village in Kasargod district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India (now in Kerala). He completed his schooling in Kasaragod's Basel Mission Higher Secondary School and the District Board High School. While in St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, where he pursued his intermediate course, he was attracted to the independence movement and was exposed to the Communist ideology. He also secured a degree in chemistry there in 1942.

In 1940, Kakkilaya became a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), and between 1941 and 1942, he served as secretary of the Mangalore unit of the All India Students' Federation, the students' wing of the CPI. Despite the ideological opposition of the party towards the Quit India Movement, Kakkilaya participated in it, and was imprisoned in September 1942, on charges of possession of banned literature. He was kept in detention in the Mangalore sub-jail for a period of nine months. Upon return, Kakkilaya became a full-time activist with the CPI against the wishes of his family. MLA Bantwal from 1972 to 1978 and Vittal constituency from 1978 to 1983.

As a writer Some of his works are on Communism Bhoomi mathu akasha Maanavana Nadige Vijnanadedege Karl Marx: Baduku, baraha Bharathiya Chinthane, Hindu dharma, Communism Bharathada muslimarau, a translation of Sacchar committee report and others. Iravu Mattu Arivu Pracheena Bharathadalli Bhouthikavada Bhaarateeya Darshanagalu Puran Chandra Joshi - Communist Chaluvaliya Roovari Pracheena Bharatadalli Jatigala Ugama Bharatakkondu Badalu Dari