T. M. Chummar

An associate of G. Sankara Kurup and Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon, Chummar's books on Kunchan Nambiar and C. V. Raman Pillai detail their literary contributions.

T. M. Chummar was born on 13 October 1899, at Chirakkakam in Varappuzha, an islet in Ernakulam district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Thattarasserry Mathai Asan and Thressia.

He continued his studies simultaneously to pass the higher training, pundit and vidwan examinations, the last one in 1935 from Madras and joined Sacred Heart School, Thevara, only to shift to Sacred Heart College, Thevara, as a lecturer, in 1937 where he became the head of the department of Malayalam in 1942, a post he held until his superannuation from service in 1962.

[1] Chummar was associated with several major literary figures such as G. Sankara Kurup, Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon and A. D. Hari Sharma[3] and they worked together for promoting Samastha Kerala Sahitya Parishad, a Kochi based literary organization,[4] where Chummar served as a committee member and as a vice president.

[8][9] He also published another noted work on literary history in 1955 under the title, Gadhya Sahithya Charithram.