Prakash Karat (Malayalam: പ്രകാശ് കാരാത്) is communist politician from India. The 56-year old Prakash Karat was elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on the 11th of April, 2005. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Harkishan Singh Surjeet Harkishan Singh Surjeet (born 23 March 1916) is a communist politician from Punjab, India. ... The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated CPI(M) or CPM) is a political party in India. ... Brinda Karat (b. ... This article is about the capital city of India. ... is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Malayalam ( ) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. ... The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated CPI(M) or CPM) is a political party in India. ...

Education and early career

Prakash Karat was educated at the Madras Christian College where he won the prize for the best all round achievement and was a resident of St.Thomas's Hall. He then went on to the University of Edinburgh to study politics. His activism began with anti-apartheid protests at the University, for which he was expelled. The expulsion was later reversed.^[1] The Madras Christian College in Chennai, South India, is one of the oldest colleges of the Indian subcontinent and was established in 1837. ... The University of Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: ), founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

Communist Party

He returned to India in 1970 and joined the CPI(M). He began working as an aide to the party leader A K Gopalan. He was involved with student politics and was elected President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student's Union. He also became the first President of the Students Federation of India between 1974 to 1979. He went underground during the emergency and was arrested twice.^[1] AKG memorial in Thiruvananthapuram Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was a communist leader and an Indian politician. ... The sprawling campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. ... Flag of the Students Federation of India Students Federation of India (SFI) is one of the major student organisations of India. ...

Party Leader

He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985 and became a member of the Politburo in 1992. The Politburo is the key decision making wing of the party. In 2005, he was elected General Secretary, effectively the most influential position in the party structure. Some analysts claim that Karat ushers in a new generational change within the CPI(M).^[2] Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ...

Academia

Since 1992, Karat has been on the editorial board of CPI(M)'s academic journal, The Marxist. He is also the managing director of Leftword. He is the author of three books.

• Language, Nationality and Politics in India (1972)
• (editor) "A World to Win" Essays on the Communist Manifesto (1999)
• Edited 'Across Time and Continents: A tribute to Victor Kiernan' (2003)

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