Chittenippaattu Puthenveettil Surendran is an Indian poet, novelist, journalist, columnist and screenplay writer.
Puthanveettil Narayanan Nair) was a pioneering rationalist, a leftist Malayalam writer and an activist.
Surendran had a brief stint as a teacher of English Literature at Calicut University in Kerala before moving to Mumbai in 1986 to work as a journalist, in the footsteps of his maternal uncle, the late C.P.
[1][2] In the wake of the allegations, Surendran stepped down from his position on the board of directors of the Matrubhumi International Festival of Letters.
Surendran is also a screenplay writer, having written scripts for Gour Hari Dastaan, which was released in 2014 and "Mai Ghat" (2019) which was screened online at the 73rd Festival de Cannes.