Pinarayi Vijayan may never have forgotten the cryptic yet acidic remark in a column in The New Indian Express that termed him 'probably the last Communist Chief Minister of Kerala'. Yet, in all likelihood, the Communist veteran might have forgiven its creator for the quip . For the man in question was, more than anything else, a true-blood journalist and chronicler of the times that he lived in, so much so that even such a cryptic observation was sure to make its way into the annals of history. And he harboured no ill-intention too.

Veteran author and noted columnist TJS George, who passed away at the age of 97 on Friday , never hesitated to call a spade a spade. And whenever he felt his views needed a fresh perspective, he never hesitated to do so.

The same TJS, who was once a

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