M.P. Parameswaran, renowned nuclear scientist and CPI(M) theorist, dies at 92

M.P. Parameswaran, former nuclear scientist who later turned outstanding as a CPI(M) theorist, individuals’s science motion activist and author, handed away in Thrissur, Kerala, on Tuesday (August 11, 2026). He was 92.

Mr. Parameswaran was one of many earliest and foremost members of Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP). His concepts on the ‘fourth world’ had triggered vast debate and ultimately led to his expulsion from the CPI(M) in February 2004.

Born on January 18, 1935 in Thrissur district, Mr. Parameswaran secured his Bachelor’s Diploma in Engineering from the School of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1956 and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Moscow Energy Institute in 1965. He was a scientist with the Bhabha Atomic Analysis Centre (BARC), Mumbai, from 1957 to 1975.

After leaving BARC in 1975, he turned a full-time activist and one of many best-known faces of KSSP.

Broad areas of curiosity

His areas of curiosity included surroundings, vitality, training and rural growth. He has quite a few books to his title, a lot of which have gained accolades.

Mr. Parameswaran was instrumental within the formation of the All India Folks’s Science Community (AIPSN), a community of individuals’s science organisations unfold all around the nation. He was its secretary and later, president. He additionally helped construct the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, an organisation answerable for huge literacy campaigns throughout India.

E-book triggers debate

Mr. Parameswaran’s ebook Fourth World triggered an enormous debate inside the CPI(M), of which he had been an lively member. In it, he envisioned a world based on decentralised democracy and financial manufacturing and indifferent from consumerism.

In February 2004, the CPI(M) expelled Mr. Parameswaran on critical costs of indiscipline, discovering that he had deviated from the social gathering line.

Mr. Parameswaran has written a number of standard science books in Malayalam and English on matters as wide-ranging as atomic vitality, radioactivity, astronomy, arithmetic, political science and ecology.