Mao Tse-Tung: Great Helmsman of the Masses

Ratnamuthu Sugathan was born in Uchakkada, near Venganoor (Thiruvananthapuram), as the first son and second child to Mr. K. Ratnamuthu and Mrs. A. Lilly. After schooling in Uchakkada and Venganoor, he completed graduation (BSc) in Zoology from Mar Ivanios College (in 1976), and took postgraduation (MA) in Philswophy from University College, Trivandrum (in 1978). He was awarded PhD in Philosophy in 1991 from Jawaharlal Nehru university, new de4lhi, under the supervision of dr. (Mrs.) Suman Gupta, professor of philosophy. His doctoral thesis was titled, development of Dialectics from kant to hegel: a critical Examination. He did research Associationship in JNU as university Grants commission postdoctoral scholar from 1993 to 1998, and took classes of Pre-PhD students during the same period in Philosophy Programme, School of languages, JNU. The topic of postdioctoral research was, a study on the Reason-Passion Conflict in the Philosophies of Hegel and Nietzsche. Besides academic research, he also did research and editing, he has been involved in social work. He is married: Dr. K.B. Usha is wife; Leenu and Anu are daughters. Dr. Sugathan has contributed articles, reviews, and research papers in English as well as Malayalam to newspapers, periodicals, souvenirs, books and refereed journals. He is the author of Polylectics: Logic of Postmodernism (Manak Publications, New Delhi, 2002).