Dr. K.N. Panikkar (b. 1936), Former Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala. He was the only Vice Chancellor of Sanskrit University who was ignorant of Sanskrit. He is a historian with a leftist bias. His works shows that he is against each and everything that is Indian or Hindu. Arun Shourie, in his book Eminent Historians, has brought out the Technology, the Line and the Fraud of the Marxist historians, including K.N.Panicker. Kerala ( ; Malayalam: കേരളം; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ... An historian is someone who writes history, a written accounting of the past. ...

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Dr. K N Panikkar is one of the best historians of the country. It is his commitment to scientific methods of historical writing and principled positions in public life that evokes responses as that we can find in Wikipedia. This is no attempt to answer them. Hundreds and thousands of his students and all those who have read or known him will not be mislead by such stuff. But the interesting aspect of that hate note is that it accuses him as a leftist. What a wonderful way to despise a person. It is like accusing a person of being a criminal or anti-social. Food for thought!