Overview
- M. P. Parameswaran died at his home in Thrissur on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, prompting widespread condolences from political, scientific and cultural figures.
- He trained as a nuclear engineer, earned a PhD from the Moscow Power Institute and worked at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre from 1957 until he left in 1975 to pursue public activism.
- Parameswaran helped build the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad into a mass people’s science movement and played a central role in founding the All India People’s Science Network and the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti.
- His 20th‑century shift from laboratory science to grassroots education produced dozens of popular science books and mass literacy campaigns that brought scientific temper to ordinary people.
- His book Fourth World promoted decentralised democracy and lower consumerism, a position that led to his expulsion from the CPI(M) in 2004; tributes note his awards including the Kerala Sree (2022) and coverage shows a minor discrepancy in reports of his age at death.