E.M.S. Namboodiripad straddled the history of twentieth century Kerala and the Indian Communist movement in a manner which invokes awe. The word ‘history’ is what recurs in the Malayalam media while paying tributes to him. History maker, history’s man, epochal figure: these are some of the terms which underline the recognition that EMS was something bigger than a political leader.

E.M.S. Namboodiripad was a leader who equipped Communist parties to handle governance in a bourgeois system.

[T]he writing of history is inescapably political, my aim is partly to provide a basis for a more politically and ethically responsible intervention by historians in modern political debate about migration.

He studied law, but unlike many Indian leaders who rose to political power as practicing lawyers, he became known not as a lawyer but as a politician.

Trump’s commitment to historical disinformation inspired many historians to take a more active role in public life.

a lot of people want to be just artists, not politicians-just want to write. But I will say this quite frankly: whether you click off right now or not, as long as you are a human being, you are a part of a political interaction. You cannot get away from it...As writers and editors and publishers and readers, we are in a position to use that political awareness to postulate a more inclusive, more just world.

Namboodiripad was by birth a brahmin,that too from the most exclusive and ancient namboodiri community of kerala,yet if he had not been from this community,communism leave alone E.M.S the man would have never become a by-word in Kerala

My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply — I never viewed politics as my career. Important, yes, worthy of intense commitment, of course — but it was not my whole life. … I saw politics as a way to make a contribution and satisfy my penchant for public policy, but not as something I couldn't live without.

Politics is history in the making.

I got involved in electoral politics because I believed that movement activism on behalf of civil rights and women's rights and labor rights and environmental protection and peace needed to be reflected on our ballots and in the corridors of power.

Politics is not an exact science.

Make politics an avocation, not a vocation.

I feel like political engagement is something that people, if they’re so inclined, all people should do...It’s not something that’s just for special, branded activists. It’s in part being a citizen.

Politics is a consequence of how a person understands their experience.