Malappurath Raman Chandrasekharan (26 February 1929 – 4 December 2024), also known as M. R. C., was an Indian Malayalam literary critic and author from Kerala.

[citation needed] Chandrasekharan started his career as a journalist in Navajeevan edited by Joseph Mundassery for the CPI.

He was also involved in the formation in 1969 of the Deshabhimani Study Circle, cited as a vigorous and widespread literary movement in Kerala along with E. M. S. Namboodiripad, M.S.Devadas and P.Govindapillai.

In 1969, when he was the research officer at Kerala Bhasha Institute, he worked as the executive editor of the magazine Vignana Kairali (Malayalam: വിജ്ഞാനകൈരളി).

Chandrasekharan won the 2010 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism for his book Malayalam Novel Innum Innaleyum.

[9] He won the Dr. C.P.Menon Award for The Study of the Progressive School in Literature for his book Keralathile purogamana sahitya prastanathinte charithram in 2005.

[citation needed] Chandrasekharan also won the M. N. Sathyaardhi Award in recognition of his contributions to Malayalam literature as a translator.