{{Short description|Period of "revolutionary" poetry in Malayalam literature}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Neologism|date=May 2011}} {{refimprove| date=August 2025}} The '''Pink Decade in Malayalam Poetry''' is the term used by some literary critics to describe the period in Malayalam literature (roughly the late 1940s and early 1950s) in which a brigade of young poets inspired by the ideals of scientific socialism and Marxist world view were active in creating 'revolutionary' poetry.
The term Pink Decade is to be taken as a figurative epithet rather than in its literal sense because these poets or their works cannot be confined within the span of a single decade.
Some poets belonging to this period are P. Bhaskaran, Vayalar Ramavarma. Thirunalloor Karunakaran, O N V Kurup, Punaloor Balan and Puthussery Ramachandran.
Though these writers initially shared some characteristics in common like a romantic vision of a classless society, a simple style directly addressing the masses and themes picked from the daily life of the common man, they later developed distinct poetic identities of their own.
==References== * {{cite book |title=Edassery Govindan Nair |last=Leelavathy |first=M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kB_H90qNhgsC | publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |year=1998 |pages=1–4|isbn=978-81-260-0496-6 }}
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