In this context, E. M. S. Namboodiripad called Kesari as "Petit-Bourgeois intellectual", which later he corrected.
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Notable personalities like E.M.S and Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai admitted later that they failed to fully understand Kesari's writing on History when he was alive and acknowledged that they could understand it only decades later.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Kesari | Changampuzha Krishna Pillai | V. Surendran Pillai | Pillai | Pattom A. Thanu Pillai | Palani Subramaniam Pillai | N. R. Pillai | Kesari Singh Barahath | Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai | S. Ramachandran Pillai | Rajan Pillai | P. Govinda Pillai | Dakshinamurthy Pillai | C. V. Raman Pillai | C. Muthiah Pillai | Andhra Kesari |