Hameed Chennamangaloor (''Abdul Hameed Areepattamannil''; born 1948) is a prominent social critic in

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

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. He is a staunch critic of religious

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. He was born to Areepattamannil Abdul Salam of Chennamangaloor and Katheeshumma of

Perumanna Perumanna is a census town in the Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India.It belong to north kerala division. It is located 13 km distance from Kozhikode city. Demographics India census, Perumanna had a population of 28027 with 1 ...

. He had his early education at Chennamangaloor and

Mukkam Mukkam is a major municipality town in Kozhikode, state of Kerala, India. Mukkam is one of the major regional suburb of the Kozhikode district. Mukkam is located about 27 km east of Calicut city on the bank of river Iruvanjippuzha, one of th ...

. After getting his BA and MA degrees, he began his career as a probationary officer in

State Bank of Travancore State Bank of Travancore (SBT) was a major Indian bank headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and was a major associate of State Bank of India. SBT was a subsidiary of the State Bank Group, but also had private share-holders. It was ...

. Later, he left the job and took up a job under the Department of Higher Education
Government of Kerala
as a lecturer of

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and literature. He became the Head of the Department of English at Government Arts and Science College, Kozhikode in 2002, a position which he held until his retirement in 2003.

Writer and Orator

Hameed Chennamangaloor has authored several books in

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. Besides, he contributes to

magazines and dailies regularly. He makes public speeches, too. He frequently gives radio talks on Akashvani's local station. Hameed has also been frequently interviewed about matters relating to contemporary affairs in the press and on the television.

Selected books

* 'Deivathinte rashtriyam' (Politics of God) (

Mathrubhumi ''Mathrubhumi'' is a Malayalam newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. It was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian independence movement, Indian freedom struggle against the British Raj, British. The word "M ...

Books, 2011) * Marxism, Islamism, Secularism (

Books, 2009) * ' Beegarathayude dhaivashasthram' (

D. C. Books DC Books is a publisher in Kerala publisher of books in Malayalam, and one of the publishers in India . It also operates one of the largest book store chains in India, with a network of over 45 bookshops under the DC Books and Current Books b ...

, 2007) * ' Hameed Chennamangaloorinte thiranjedutha lekhanangal' (Haritham Books, 2007) * ' Matham, rashtreeyam, janadhipathyam' (

Books, 2005) * ' Oru Indian Musliminte sothanthra chindhakal' (Translation)

Selected articles

Mathrubhumi Weekly, 16 May 2010

References

External links

The Official Blog of Hameed Chennamangaloor
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chennamangaloor, Hameed Living people Writers from Kozhikode 20th-century Indian Muslims Malayalam-language writers 1948 births Social critics Kozhikode east Indian religious writers