Veteran communist Sankaraiah turns 100 today
The Hindu
He became a communist party member in 1940 when he was 18, joined CPI(M) when the party split
When the Communist Party was banned in India in 1948, N. Sankaraiah, then 26, went underground. He was hiding in the house of a washerman, a party member, in Madurai. Living amid soiled clothes caused him allergy, itching and boils. “As his condition became unbearable, the party secretly shifted him to Chennai for treatment,” recalled S. Narasimhan, son of Mr. Sankaraiah, who turns 100 on July 15. He spent eight years in jail before and after Independence and another three years underground.More Related News