The late Communist leader T.V. Thomas’s role in Punnapra-Vayalar uprising sparks CPI-CPI(M) row

TL;DR

• The controversy, which has played out largely on social media, centres on a special edition of Chintha, the CPI(M)’s ideological publication, brought out to mark the uprising’s 80th anniversary as CPI leaders took strong exception to the way it documented the struggle and its lea