# Pink Decade

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{{Short description|Period of "revolutionary" poetry in Malayalam literature}}
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The '''Pink Decade in Malayalam Poetry''' is the term used by some literary critics to describe the period in [Malayalam literature](/source/Malayalam_literature) (roughly the late 1940s and early 1950s)  in which a brigade of young  poets inspired by the ideals of [scientific socialism](/source/scientific_socialism) and [Marxist](/source/Marxist) world view were active in  creating '[revolutionary](/source/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](/source/P._Bhaskaran), [Vayalar Ramavarma](/source/Vayalar_Ramavarma). [Thirunalloor Karunakaran](/source/Thirunalloor_Karunakaran), [O N V Kurup](/source/O_N_V_Kurup), [Punaloor Balan](/source/Punaloor_Balan) and [Puthussery Ramachandran](/source/Puthussery_Ramachandran).

Though these writers initially shared some characteristics in common like a romantic vision of a [classless society](/source/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](/source/Sahitya_Akademi) |location=New Delhi |year=1998 |pages=1–4|isbn=978-81-260-0496-6 }}

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