Summary:
Born in a middle-lass family in 1923, he was always inclined to fine arts, music and dance. A freedom fighter, he was arrested and imprisoned in 1942 for four months—an incident that changed his priorities at least for a brief time. He chose to use art as a medium to express a freedom fighter’s vision of India. The ongoing exhibition named ‘Through the eyes of a freedom fighter’, organised jointly by his nephew Suresh Eriyat and Riverbourne cente, Tripunithura, is reviving his fighting spirit. Despite the range of skills he touched in his life, Madhavan managed to keep everything that inspired him along that journey close..