India, Aug. 11 -- M P Parameswaran, a nuclear scientist turned people's educator, transformed Kerala's understanding of science and development.

Leaving BARC in 1975, he took complex ideas to ordinary citizens through KSSP, helped shape landmark environmental struggles like Silent Valley and Athirappilly, and insisted that technology and development be questioned democratically by those who live with their consequences.

M P Parameswaran, the nuclear scientist who walked away from India's atomic establishment to spend the rest of his life taking science to ordinary people, died at his home in Thrissur in Kerala on August 11. He was 91 and had been suffering from age-related ailments.

With him goes one of Kerala's most restless minds, a ...